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Nehru did not setup IIT or ISRO nor it was his vision
vhdrVZ
No.453814
>The concept of the IITs originated even before India gained independence in 1947. After the end of the Second World War and before India got independence, Sir Ardeshir Dalal from the Viceroy's Executive Council foresaw that the future prosperity of India would depend not so much on capital as on technology. He, therefore, proposed the setting up of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
>To man those laboratories, he persuaded the US government to offer hundreds of doctoral fellowships under the Technology Cooperation Mission (TCM) program. However realizing that such steps can not help in the long run for the development of India after it gains independence, he conceptualized institutes that would train such work forces in the country itself. This is believed to be the first conceptualization of IITs.
>Dr. Humayun Kabir encouraged Dr. B. C. Roy, the chief minister of West Bengal to work on Sir Ardeshir's proposal for an IIT.
>With the recommendations of the Sarkar committee in view and on the basis of blueprint made by L. S. Chandrakant, Biman Sen, and Sir J. C. Ghosh, the first Indian Institute of Technology was born in May, 1950 at the site of Hijli Detention Camp in Kharagpur, a town in eastern India.
Same with ISRO which was brainchild of scientists from pre independence India, SK Mitra, CV Raman, Meghnand Saha, Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha with industrial contributions from Tatas.
>Modern space research in India can be traced to the 1920s, when scientist S. K. Mitra conducted a series of experiments sounding the ionosphere through ground-based radio in Kolkata.[15] Later, Indian scientists like C. V. Raman and Meghnad Saha contributed to scientific principles applicable in space sciences.[15] After 1945, important developments were made in coordinated space research in India[15] by two scientists: Vikram Sarabhai, founder of the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad, and Homi Bhabha, who established the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1945.[15] Initial experiments in space sciences included the study of cosmic radiation, high-altitude and airborne testing, deep underground experimentation at the Kolar mines—one of the deepest mining sites in the world—and studies of the upper atmosphere.[16] These studies were done at research laboratories, universities, and independent locations.[16][17]
As with everything, gandhi name was stamped and IT cell loves to give credit to gandhi over everything. But as we see it was the elites of Kolkata, tatas and kings who helped more than any politicians ever.
The IT Boom in India was also not due to the government rather despite the government. For almost 60 years of governance never once was the political leadership proactive about anything.
Easiest way to ascertain this is their failure in primary education, they didn't have visionaries like bhabha, sarabhai leading them and end result we know what happened.
vhdrVZ
No.453817
>>453814(OP)
Fall of west bengal need to be studied. It used to be our elite capital - music, cinema, science, humanities. Eventually what was left was low grade shit shoveling humanitycucks.
captch: (bhb)
SvLuqX
No.453819
>>453814(OP)
lol not to shit on your thread, but why would it matter who setup IIT or ISRO?
What matters is who the scientists are and who makes the achievements in the end.
vhdrVZ
No.453824
>>453819
>why would it matter who setup IIT or ISRO?
It's addressing political discourse.
>What matters is who the scientists are and who makes the achievements in the end.
Agree.
gZRP5p
No.453825
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No.453826
>>453817
This. How did bengalis went from bhadralok to TMC/CPM goons
+NfYNp
No.453827
>>453825
title.
krLdWp
No.453850
Yup, and most do not know this, British for all their faults, were legally impartial, they promoted meritocracy, which in turn created a business and academic elite in india, all these institutions - IIT, BARC, ISRO, HAL, IISc, Air India etc were brainchild of this elite, even universities such as BHU were set up in this way, many of these were financed by erstwhile maharajas of pricely states, what Nehru did was socialised most of these, which eventually led to their decline.
vhdrVZ
No.453852
>>453850
>these were financed by erstwhile maharajas of pricely states, what Nehru did was socialised most of these, which eventually led to their decline.
Once can argue that many of these institutions would have prospered better under british of princely states compared to socialist nehru era.
vhdrVZ
No.453854
>>453829
Shell of its past glory.
krLdWp
No.453858
most of you guys likely don't know this but HAL manufactured fighter planes for US in WW2, it was actually established by Walchand Hirachand Doshi, who was an industrialist (he established first shipyard of India too), Maharja of Travancore financed this project.
Nehruvian Socialism destroyed all entrepreneurship in india, even today india hasn't completely recovered from license raj, it just transformed into crony capitalism, in 40s, Indian currency was widely accepted across Gulf, the credit networks were widespread all the way to Europe, all of that was destroyed by the Congress government.
krLdWp
No.453861
>>453852
100%
Congress' socialist policies transformed these places into third rate shitholes, today the best of Indians go abroad, people think mandal was the start of decline, but even before it petty bureaucratisation had killed all innovation in india, both in industry and academia.
krLdWp
No.453877
From early to mid 20th century, India was still a place where visionaries could realise their visions, there was large scale collaboration between industrialists, academics and maharajas, institutions were being established from scratch, and we were producing noble laureates who discovered novel concepts in physics, mathematics and chemistry, the best of them had the opportunity to work with many leading researchers of that time, most of these people didn't even study at IIT, they graduated from central universities, everyone knows what has become of these places today.
License Raj closed the country and demoralised everyone who had a sense of individuality, exteme risk aversion among indian corporates is a relic of that era too.
+NfYNp
No.453887
>>453877
Trvke.
