There is a delicious irony in the commercial and critical success of Slumdog Millionaire.Upper India has been desperately seeking Oscar recognition for its Hindi movies.Here is a movie with Mumbai-based story, Indian actors and Hindi dialogues which has won no less than ten Oscar nominations some of which will surely ( continue reading… )
Current Science, 76, 596-601 ( 1999) Science and domination: India before and after independence Rajesh Kochhar The colonial overseas British empire was made possible by (modern) science in two ways. First, science provided the physical means of acquisition of territory and its control. Second, the development of the ( continue reading… )
Acquaintance with steam technology under colonial auspices led to the introduction, by Cursetjee’s descendents , of steam machinery in textile through the establishment of Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Mills and Century Mills in Bombay. See R. Kochhar (2005) Shipbuilding in India: Wadia shipbuilders. In: Encyclopedia of the History of Non-Western ( continue reading… )