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Just fifty years into its existence, IIT-Bombay can be counted among the best-known institutions of technical education worldwide. Monastery, Sanctuary, Laboratory traces IIT-Bombay’s conception and its evolution over its first five decades, as related by one of its own faculty. Capturing the Institute’s moments of glory while concurrently examining its shortfalls, the book also embeds it in the larger canvas of India’s science and technology enterprise. Written in the style of a narrative history, it has a wealth of arresting, intriguing, and little known facts – a product of careful research – accompanied by evocative sketches and period photographs.
While being an authoritative history, Monastery, Sanctuary, Laboratory is presented with considerable drama and delightful wit by an accomplished author, Rohit Manchanda, who has won a Betty Trask Award for his fiction and is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at IIT-Bombay. The book will appeal equally to the historian of education, to the serious student of India`s engagement with science and technology, and to the curious casual reader alike.
ISBN - 9780230636361
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Pages : 454
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