NEWS
Seminar entitled “International networks and aircraft manufacture in late-colonial India:
Hindustan Aircraft Limited, 1940-47” will be held on Tuesday 04 June 2019.
Date and time
Tuesday 04 June 2019, 18:30〜20:30（Venue opens at 18:00）
Venue
Conference Room 6, 17th Floor, Global Front Building, Surugadai, Campus, Meiji University
Map
Entry fee
Free
Language
English
Sponsor
Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer
Time Table
| 18:30-19:30 | Presentation | Aparajith Ramnath, “International networks and aircraft manufacture in late-colonial India: Hindustan Aircraft Limited, 1940-47”. |
|---|---|---|
| 19:30-19:40 | Comment (1) | K.Yokoi (Meiji University) |
| 19:40-19:50 | Comment (2) | S,Watanabe (Tohoku Gakuin University) |
| 19:50-20:00 | Short break | |
| 20:00-20:30 | Question & Answer | |
| chair | M.Takeuchi (Nihon University) | |
Speaker’s profile
Aparajith Ramnath is Assistant Professor at Ahmedabad University. Aparajith is a historian
of science, technology and industry in South Asia. He is the author of
The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900-47
(Oxford University Press, 2017). Aparajith did his postgraduate work in the history of science,
medicine and technology at Oxford University (MS) and Imperial College London (PhD).
From 2013-17, he was Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. His
present book project is a study of the career of Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962), a prominent
engineer/administrator/technocrat who was a leading advocate of heavy industrialisation in India.
