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Dilip M Salwi, M Visvesvaraya: Engineer &#38; Nation Builder, New Delhi, Rupa Publisher, 2003"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."&#160;See Also:M Visvesvaraya, Reconstructing India, London, P.S.King &#38; Son, 1920. Available here.M Visvesvaraya, Nation Building, Bangalore, The Bangalore Press, 1937. Available here.M Visvesvaraya, Memoirs of my working life, Bangalore, Visvesvaraya, 1951. Excerpts (Chapter IV: Work as Chief Engineer, Mysore) available here.Dhruv Raina, "Visvesvaraya as an Engineer-Sociologist and the evolution of his techno-economic vision", NIAS Lecture 1, 2001Chandan Gowda, "Visvesvaraya, an Engineer of Modernity", The Hindu, September 15, 2010. Available here.