Western science in modern India (Record no. 231115)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788178242927
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Classification number 306.45 CHA
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Personal name Chakrabarti, Pratik
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Title Western science in modern India
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Ranikhet
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Permanent Black
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
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Extent 328p.
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Price amount 9000
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Summary, etc. This book is about Western science in a colonial world. It asks: how do we understand the transfer and absorption of scientific knowledge across diverse cultures, from one society to another?<br/>Pratik Chakrabarti approaches this question from the assumption that knowledge is fundamentally linked with experience. He analyses what was ‘Western' about that scientific knowledge, and what constituted the ‘colonialness’ of Indian experience. He shows that the expansion of a European discipline into strange and distant lands meant experiencing new phenomena, examining new facts, developing new hypotheses. This journey of science from Europe to colonial India, he argues, was also one from metropolis to periphery. The book explores whether the periphery can alter the terms of the metropolis.<br/>Starting in the eighteenth century, Chakrabarti reveals a process of knowledge-transfer that involved not only Indian nationalist scientists but also Europeans (East India Company surgeons and surveyors)—the initial practitioners of modern science in India. In doing so he highlights the fact that the marginality of colonial scientific experience, like the battles to overcome it, could be located at diverse cultural sites.<br/>This book spans a period of about 170 years, from 1780 to 1950, and traverses several institutions. These include the Asiatic Society, the Geological Survey of India, the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, the Bose Institute. It also looks acutely at the work of individuals such as Henry Piddington, Thomas Holland, Frederick Corbyn, Hugh Falconer, Mahendralal Sircar, J.C. Bose, P.C. Ray, and M.N. Saha.<br/>As a historical elucidation of the location of science in modern India, this is a major monograph. It will interest scientists, historians and sociologists, as well as students of imperialism and the history of ideas.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Science and society-Colonial India
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-08 9000.00   306.45 CHA 147933 2020-02-08 9000.00 2020-02-08 Books

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