Tuesday 04 June 2019, 18:30〜20:30(Venue opens at 18:00)
Conference Room 6, 17th Floor, Global Front Building, Surugadai, Campus, Meiji University
Free
English
Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer
18:30-19:30 | Presentation | Aparajith Ramnath, “International networks and aircraft manufacture in late-colonial India: Hindustan Aircraft Limited, 1940-47”. |
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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) |
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.