Monastery, Sanctuary, Laboratory: 50 Years of IIT Bombay
Manchanda, Rohit
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Book ID : 34099
ISBN-10 : 0-230-63636-5 / 0230636365
ISBN-13 : 978-0-230-63636-1 / 9780230636361
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2008
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
454p., 29 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
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.