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The Genesis of the IIT System of Education: Were there Global/National/Local Factors at Play?


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1 Sunayana Maiti, PhD scholar, Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
2 PhD Scholar, Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
     

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The paper intends to focus on the entanglement of global, national and local factors influencing the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology. The Two World Wars created an exceptional situation that saw a burgeoning of a strong scientific and technical mindset. As a response the idea of a strong technical base that would enable a self-reliant industrialized country was floating in Europe, UK, and the US which naturally attracted the minds of the Indian intelligentsia. What kind of engineering institutions were emerging from these debates? The paper aims to examine all these thoughts/ideas/influences running concurrently that possibly shaped the rise of the IIT system of education in India.

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IT System, Education, Genesis, Global Factors, National Factors, Local Factors.
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Authors

Sunayana Maiti
Sunayana Maiti, PhD scholar, Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Sujata Banerjee
PhD Scholar, Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Abstract


The paper intends to focus on the entanglement of global, national and local factors influencing the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology. The Two World Wars created an exceptional situation that saw a burgeoning of a strong scientific and technical mindset. As a response the idea of a strong technical base that would enable a self-reliant industrialized country was floating in Europe, UK, and the US which naturally attracted the minds of the Indian intelligentsia. What kind of engineering institutions were emerging from these debates? The paper aims to examine all these thoughts/ideas/influences running concurrently that possibly shaped the rise of the IIT system of education in India.

Keywords


IT System, Education, Genesis, Global Factors, National Factors, Local Factors.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2021%2Fv35%2Fi5%2F210554