Domesticating modern science : a social history of science and culture in colonial India / Dhruv Raina, S. Irfan Habib.
Pubblicazione:
New Delhi : Tulika books, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 233 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Pt. 1. 1. The introduction of scientific rationality into India: a study of master Ramchandra, Urdu journalist, mathematician, educationist 2. Ramchandra's Treatise through the haze of the golden sunset: an aborted pedagogy 3. Mathematical foundations of a cultural project: Ramchandra's Treatise through the unsentimentalized light of mathematics 4. Copernicus, Columbus, colonialism and the role of science in nineteenth-century India. Pt. 2. 5. The unfolding of an engagement: the dawn on science, technical education and industrialization in India (1896-1912) 6. Bhadralok perceptions of science, technology and cultural nationalism 7. The moral legitimation of modern science: bhadralok reflections on theories of evolution 8. Technical content and social context: locating technical institutes: the first two decades in the history of Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890-1910) 9. Big science and the University in India. Index
