Let There Be Light - Engineering, Entrepreneurship Electricity in Colonial Bengal,

This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945.

List of contents

List of abbreviations; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; 1. Technical knowledge and its institutes; 2. Entrepreneurship, industry and technology; 3. Electrification: the shaping of a technology; 4. Domesticating electricity; 5. Assimilation of technological ideas; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Suvobrata Sarkar teaches at the Department of History, University of Burdwan, India. His research looks at the social history of technology in colonial India. He is also the recipient of the Maurice Daumas Prize 2019 awarded by the International Committee for the History of Technology.

Summary

Let There Be Light focusses on the hitherto unexplored vernacular sources, and emphasizes that the history of technology in India is basically a history of India, and the history of its people, and not simply a history of the Indian techno-scientific tradition as proposed by the literature emerging from the West.

Product details

• Authors: Suvobrata Sarkar, Sarkar Suvobrata
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108835985
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83598-5
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, Entrepreneurship, 20th Century, India, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, HISTORY / Asia / South / General