Engineers and Society in India - From Circa 1850 to Present Times

Informationen zum Autor Vanessa Caru is a social historian and a Research Fellow at CESAH (CNRS-EHESS, Paris). She obtained her PhD in history, with a dissertation entitled "Working-class housing and the social question, Bombay (1850-1950)". She is currently researching the social history of the Indian personnel of the Public Works Department in the Bombay Presidency, from the 1860s to the 1960s. Klappentext This work examines the history of Indian engineers, exploring key events and policies that shaped India's engineering landscape from the colonial era to the present. It explores India's infrastructural and intellectual evolution.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa (Research Fellow Caru
• Assisted by: Vanessa Caru (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9780198935919
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893591-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Structural, Asian History, Society and culture: general, Structural engineering, Building skills & trades, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Building skills and trades, Industrialisation and industrial history