Publisher's Synopsis
In his time, Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962) achieved much fame as an engineer. He was the most famous Indian engineer of the twentieth century. And that was singularly unusual. Indians of his generation won worldwide fame as mystics, poets, and political leaders—Vivekananda, Tagore, Gandhi—rarely as technologists or engineers. And yet he was also much more. Many decades after his death, much in India bears the imprint of Visvesvaraya's work—as civil engineer, of course, but also as public administrator, constitutional analyst, and economic thinker.
