A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947–⁠1969: Autarky and Foreign Aid

Acknowledgments
Contents
Acronyms and Abbreviations
List of Figures
1 Introduction
	Historiography
	Overview of the Book
	Arguments
	References
2 The Industrial Revolution in India
	Industry and the Raj
	Dreams of a New India
	The Five-Year Plans
	Independence and Autarky
	Import Substitution and Nehruvian India
	Waste and Adaptive Reuse in Indian Technology
	Conclusion
	References
3 India and the Cold War
	Nonalignment in India and Abroad
	India and the United States
	India and the Soviet Union
	Cultural Exchanges Between the Superpowers and India
	Conclusion
	References
4 Modernizing the Indian Air Force: Imported Fighters and the HF-24 Marut, 1947–1968
	The Indian Air Force Before Independence
	The Air Force Looks West
	The Indigenous Fighter Dream
	The Air Force and the Superpowers
	India, Egypt, and Indigenous Jet Fighters
	Conclusion
	References
5 India’s Air Defenses and the Sino-Indian War: Exercise Shiksha, November 1963
	India and China Go to War
	The West and India’s Air Defenses
	The Air Force Gets an Education
	Friends and Rivals in Exercise Shiksha
	From Palam Field to Kanjarkot Fort
	Conclusion
	References
6 Spanning Assam’s Great River: The Brahmaputra Bridge and the Indian Railways, 1958–1962
	The Indian Railways and Assam
	Prehistory of the Brahmaputra Bridge
	The Search for a Second Contractor
	Building the Brahmaputra Bridge
	Conclusion
	References
7 A Dam in the Khasi Hills: The Umiam Hydroelectric Project, 1960–1965
	Dams in Independent India
	A Dam on Khasi Land
	How the Dam Was Built
	How the Dam Was Financed
	Conclusion
	References
8 Tarapur and the Atomic Age, 1959–1964
	The Nuclear Age Comes to Independent India
	The Genesis of Tarapur
	The Race for the Tarapur Contract
	Tarapur and the Cold-War World
	Understanding Tarapur
	References
9 Constructing Tarapur, 1964–1969
	The Makers of Tarapur Atomic Power Station
	Work at Tarapur
	Life at Tarapur
	Labor and the Indian State
	The Tarapur Strike
	Tarapur’s Troubles
	Conclusion
	References
10 Conclusion
	The Technological Heritage of Nehruvian India
	Technology Transfer and Indigenization in Modern India
	Nehruvian Development in Retrospect
	References
Index