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Reconstructing India
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
344 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2015
About the author
M. Visvesvaraya
4 books7 followersMokshagundam Visvesvaraya, KCIE (popularly known as Sir MV; 15 September 1861 – 12 April 1962) was an Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. He is a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the British Indian Empire (KCIE) by King George V for his contributions to the public good. 15 September is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory. He is held in high regard as a pre-eminent engineer of India. He was the chief engineer responsible for the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam in Mysore as well as the chief designer of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad
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July 3, 2025
Visvesvaraya was trained as a civil engineer in his career.
He was a statesman, planner and the Prime Minister of Mysore. He is famous for being, Father of Engineering in India.
In this book, Reconstruction of India; I examine his plans, responses to challenges facing India. For anyone, who is interested in challenges and proposing solutions of India from agriculture, manufacturing, governance, social conditions, will find this work invaluable.
The reason why I selected this excellent work is to hear from India’s foremost engineer his own thoughts on issues of India, underdevelopment and how to solve them, improve things.
This book was written in 1920, with concern of India’s low standards of living. This is a historical account of India’s past issues. The writing is precise, clear which makes it easy to cover. He compares, India’s deficiencies of statistics with advanced nation’s education, social structures, industries.
The approach Visvesvaraya takes on this work is comparative visionary and analytical.
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He was a statesman, planner and the Prime Minister of Mysore. He is famous for being, Father of Engineering in India.
In this book, Reconstruction of India; I examine his plans, responses to challenges facing India. For anyone, who is interested in challenges and proposing solutions of India from agriculture, manufacturing, governance, social conditions, will find this work invaluable.
The reason why I selected this excellent work is to hear from India’s foremost engineer his own thoughts on issues of India, underdevelopment and how to solve them, improve things.
This book was written in 1920, with concern of India’s low standards of living. This is a historical account of India’s past issues. The writing is precise, clear which makes it easy to cover. He compares, India’s deficiencies of statistics with advanced nation’s education, social structures, industries.
The approach Visvesvaraya takes on this work is comparative visionary and analytical.
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