This chapter focuses on the colonial authorities’ decision to revive the Lucknow Industrial School in 1904. It proposes that the industrial visions of the new principal of the school, P. H. Swinchatt, and the new Governor of the Province, John Hewett, altered the school's orientation. They transformed it from a school that initially trained skilled artisans for the railways, and later craftsmen for indigenous industries, into an institution that produced mechanics and junior industry leaders. The Lucknow Industrial School evolved into the Lucknow Technical School—a tier-2 institution above the levels of tier-3 industrial and crafts schools meant for improving artisans. These changes reflected the new provincial policies of industrial and technical education, which not only created a clear hierarchy of institutions but also a bureaucracy for industrial and technical education. The chapter also examines the colonial state's involvement with technical education during the War years and investigates how these imperial interventions shaped the trajectory of technical education. It argues that school authorities dropped artisans as subjects of technical training and focused on students who had prior literary training and possessed school certificates.

By 1904, colonial authorities abandoned the project of reviving indigenous industries and equipping bazaar artisans with improved skills, designs, and tools.