Technology from Below Hi-Tech and Backyard Inventors
Technology from Below Hi-Tech and Backyard Inventors
My Story of Their Partnership in a Growth Economy
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Bind: Hardbound
Year: 2018
Pages: 152
Size: 152 x 228 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
The book illustrates the role of “new subalterns” in Indian history and contemporary development by focusing on the life story of the Late Mr K. Narayan of Bijnor in western Uttar Pradesh in India. It describes his inventions and emphasizes on his participatory engagements with his children aimed at realizing the desired results in problem solving through scientific thinking and action. His simple ways turned adversity into opportunity for them. Equally significant was his articulation of a discourse that the code for differentiating high technology from backyard science led to unacceptable notions about the status of science in India's antiquity, while it was short on the practical value of blending the two in a market-led growth economy of today.
For James Mill, Karl Marx and Max Weber India's past amounted to a period of “no history”. Hence Muslim and British rule was taken as a point of India's entry into a trajectory of historical development. This book is inspired by disagreement with such a reading of the situation and underlines India's high level of artisanal craftsmanship during the so-called no history period as a source of cultural and technological development. It brings home this emphasis by narrating a recent story of a backyard inventor. As such, it is a call for a more balanced counter-history of technology in India.
Target Audience:
People interested in Technological Development and new innovations or inventions.
Contents:
Editor's Note
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: My Eureka Moments as Inventor-Entrepreneur
Chapter 3: My Eureka moments as In-House Inventor
Chapter 4: My Eureka moments as Amateur-Inventor
Chapter 5: Beyond My Personal Journey
Chapter 6: In Retrospect
Further Reading
Must Read Books
Appendix I: Letter of Seth Ji Shri R.K. Dalmia
Appendix II: Letter of Seth Ji Shri J. Dalmia
Appendix III: Letter of Seth Ji Shri J. Dalmia
Appendix IV: Letter of Seth Ji Shri Shanti Prasad Jain
Appendix V: Governor Shri Dharma Vira's article in The Hindustan Times dated 18-10-1998 titled as A candle of hope remembering his association with the Late Mr. K. Narayan
Appendix VI: Letter of Professor D.V. Turner, FRS
Appendix VII: The Ramachandra Lift
Appendix VIII: Dry Leaves Manure Maker
Appendix IX: List of My Patents
Appendix X: K. Narayan: A Biographical Window
Select Bibliography
Technology and Society: Some Pictures
Index
FORCE Magazine
Magazine - 28/Aug/2018
About the Author:
Kailash Narayan started his career in the late thirties as Manager of the Cement Factory at Dalmianagar. He was deputed to other Cement Factories of the Dalmias at Dandaut, Karachi and Rewari, generally for increasing productivity there by introducing innovations in the manufacturing process. His simple ways of meeting the need by getting over the restrictive controls of MNC technology carved out a place for him in cement technology in India of those days. His subsequent forays as inventor-entrepreneur and encounters with inventive ideas brought more than a dozen patents into his basket.
About the Editor:
Sushil Kumar is a retired Professor in International Politics at the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has contributed papers to learned journals and published books.
