M. Visvesvaraya : Engineer and Nation-Builder

Contents: 1. Engineering a social revolution. 2. Blocks and gates. 3. Harbinger of a new age. 4. Steel plant, car and aircraft. 5. Torchbearer of modern India. Sayings of M. Visvesvaraya. Chronology. Bibliography.

"Today, there are few engineers who can match the vision, administrative capability and patriotic zeal of M. Visvesvaraya. He was not only a pioneer civil engineer whose painstaking efforts led to the modernisation of independent India but was also a social revolutionary who set rolling several programmes for the propagation of technical education, women’s education and family planning which are in progress even today.

A man with a modern outlook. Visvesvaraya was the brain behind Krishnaraja Sagar Dam, Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Works, Mysore Sandalwood and Soap Company and Mysore University.

This is the story of that legend whose philosophy and vision gave guidance and direction to political leaders, policy planners, economists, industrialists and educationists for building a modern India." (jacket)