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Science and Modern India
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Science and Modern India

by Uma Das Gupta
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
47h 15m
English
Pearson India
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CHAPTER 29

Exemplar of Academia–Industry Interchange: The Department of Chemical Technology at Bombay University, 1915–35

Nasir Tyabji*

INTRODUCTION

Although the three Presidency Universities in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras were established in 1857, scientific education, let alone technological education, formed a marginal part of the higher educational curriculum. For the next 60 years, until the end of World War I, this bias towards a general arts programme was viewed by nationalists as deliberately designed to deflect the thrust of educational aspirations towards jobs in the clerical base of the administration. From the time of the 1882 Education Commission in particular, nationalists demanded greater attention on technical education, both ...

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