Author : Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788178240787
The Book Is About Western Science In A Olonial World. It Asks: How Do We Understand The Transfer And Absorption Of Scientific Knowledge Across Diverse Cultures, From One Society To Another? This Monograph Will Interest Scientists, Historians And Sociologists, As Well As Students Of Imperialism And The History Of Ideas.
Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1139429213
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.
Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 1999-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0691004536
He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason - and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Das Gupta
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1900
Category : India
ISBN : 8131753751
Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XV, Part 4 comprises chapters contributed by eminent scholars. It discusses the historical background of the establishment of science institutes that were established in pre-Independence India, and still exist, their functions and their present status. This volume discusses Indian science institutes that specialize in a particular field. It also delves into the area of engineering sciences.
Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1843317486
Papers presented at the International Conference on Science and Spirituality in Modern India, held at New Delhi during 5-7 February 2006.
Author : S. Irfan Habib
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
Can science be seen as the flag bearer of the 'civilizing mission' dispelling the darkness of centuries of superstition? Did the installation of new technological systems displace ancient primitive techniques? Rejecting the simplistic notion of transmission of science and technology, this reader argues for a variety of perspectives. Part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, it provides an excellent introduction to the world of science and technology in colonial India. Departing from the standard practice of seeing science as a cultural universal, Social History of Science emphasizes the need for redrawing boundaries long taken for granted. It investigates how modern science - considered as a pristine Western cultural import - was reconstituted in the encounter with other ways of knowing and acting on the world. Bringing together some of the finest writings - even rare - on the subject, this volume highlights the multiplicity of historiogaphic positions on colonial science and the changing landscapes for the study of science in South Asia. The contributors approach issues related to science and colonialism from a variety of scientific disciplines. They engage with the drift produced by the entanglement of science and values and the complicity of the scientific project in that of imperialism.
Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Makarand Paranjape
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion and science
ISBN :
Papers presented at the International Conference on Science and Spirituality in Modern India, held at New Delhi during 5-7 February 2006.
Author : David L. Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 113414332X
This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. The beliefs of key Indian scientists, including Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy and S.N. Bose are explored and the book goes on to reflect upon how individual scientists could still accept particular religious beliefs such as reincarnation, cosmology, miracles and prayer. Science and the Indian Tradition gives an in-depth assessment of results of the introduction of Western science into India, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and those interested in the interaction between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought.
Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791429204
Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.
Author : Dhruv Raina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0199088292
This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several strands from the corpus of writing over the past 150 years and places them within the context of their times. It analyses ideas about the interplay between centre and periphery, internal and external accounts of science, creative tension between scientism and romanticism, model of colonial science and its relationship with the emergence of national science, and the distortions of nationalist historiography.
