Instrumental lives : an intimate biography of an Indian laboratory / Pankajkumar Ramawtar Sekhsaria.

By:

Sekhsaria, Pankaj [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge focus on modern subjects | Routledge focus on modern subjectsPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019Description: xxii, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780367856298 (hardback)

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DDC classification:

502.8 SEK 23 014304

Contents:

1.Introduction: Entering the lablsetting the stage 1.1.Meeting the scientist 1.2.Entering the labs 1.3.The first set of insights 1.4.The structure of the book 2.1986-2014: Making of the STM 2.1.Nobel for the STM 2.2.Surface science 2.3.The STM journey in Pune 2.4.History and geography, space and place 3.S&T in modern India a brief history 3.1.Self-reliance as a core agenda 3.2.History of S&T narratives 3.3.Postcolonial S&T in India 3.4.Contextualising the methodology 4.Jugaad and its many worlds/avatars 4.1.Understanding jugaad 4.2.An embarrassment calledjugaad? 4.3.Technological jugaad that made the STM 5.Dharmadhikari's microscopes and technological jugaad 5.1.Reconfigured materiality 5.2.Embedded in the local geography 5.3.Critiques, questions, evaluations 5.4.The commercialisation question 5.5.A pedagogic tool 5.6.Characterising technological jugaad Contents note continued: 6.Implications for innovation policy 6.1.What is innovation inside a laboratory? 6.2.Schumpeter's enduring legacy 6.3.The Indian context STIP 2013 6.4.India Technology Vision 2035 6.5.Policy implications 7.De-centred/de-centring cultures of innovation 7.1.Culture/cultures of innovation 7.2.Different cultures of innovation 7.3.Finding a middle space for innovation cultures 8.In the end ... or call it an epilogue 8.1.A conversation with a student 8.2.The story of another scientist 8.3.In the very end Postscript A research agenda for the future Annexures 1.Diary notes from my first meeting with Prof CV Dharmadhikari in December 2010 2.Receipts for the purchase of soldering material, shaving blades and tungsten wire used in the labs 3.Facsimile of Bendre and Dharmadhikari's 1988 paper, one of the first on an STM related subject to be published by the lab Contents note continued: 4.Rajendra Kshirsagar's presentation during the seminar in March 2011 to felicitate Dharmadhikari 5.Extract of interview with Shirshendu Dey, who completed his PhD under Dharmadhikari's supervision in 2011 6.A brief note on nanoscience and technology in India 7.List of interviews.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-118) and index.

1.Introduction: Entering the lablsetting the stage
1.1.Meeting the scientist
1.2.Entering the labs
1.3.The first set of insights
1.4.The structure of the book
2.1986-2014: Making of the STM
2.1.Nobel for the STM
2.2.Surface science
2.3.The STM journey in Pune
2.4.History and geography, space and place
3.S&T in modern India
a brief history
3.1.Self-reliance as a core agenda
3.2.History of S&T narratives
3.3.Postcolonial S&T in India
3.4.Contextualising the methodology
4.Jugaad and its many worlds/avatars
4.1.Understanding jugaad
4.2.An embarrassment calledjugaad?
4.3.Technological jugaad that made the STM
5.Dharmadhikari's microscopes and technological jugaad
5.1.Reconfigured materiality
5.2.Embedded in the local geography
5.3.Critiques, questions, evaluations
5.4.The commercialisation question
5.5.A pedagogic tool
5.6.Characterising technological jugaad
Contents note continued: 6.Implications for innovation policy
6.1.What is innovation inside a laboratory?
6.2.Schumpeter's enduring legacy
6.3.The Indian context
STIP 2013
6.4.India Technology Vision 2035
6.5.Policy implications
7.De-centred/de-centring cultures of innovation
7.1.Culture/cultures of innovation
7.2.Different cultures of innovation
7.3.Finding a middle space for innovation cultures
8.In the end ... or call it an epilogue
8.1.A conversation with a student
8.2.The story of another scientist
8.3.In the very end
Postscript
A research agenda for the future
Annexures
1.Diary notes from my first meeting with Prof CV Dharmadhikari in December 2010
2.Receipts for the purchase of soldering material, shaving blades and tungsten wire used in the labs
3.Facsimile of Bendre and Dharmadhikari's 1988 paper, one of the first on an STM related subject to be published by the lab
Contents note continued: 4.Rajendra Kshirsagar's presentation during the seminar in March 2011 to felicitate Dharmadhikari
5.Extract of interview with Shirshendu Dey, who completed his PhD under Dharmadhikari's supervision in 2011
6.A brief note on nanoscience and technology in India
7.List of interviews.

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