Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 234 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521563194
Series Statement:
The New Cambridge history of India III, 5
Content:
In an historical reinterpretation, the author considers the role of science, technology and medicine to provide a survey of recent scholarship and an original overview. He asserts the role of science in the making of colonial India and in the fashioning of Indian responses to British rule
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-216) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATION; TABLES; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: SCIENCE, COLONIALISM AND MODERNITY; INDIA'A SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS; COLONIAL SCIENCE; SCIENCE AS MODERNITY; CHAPTER 2 SCIENCE UNDER THE COMPANY; THE COMPANY OF SCIENCE; THE ORGANISATION OF COLONIAL SCIENCE; SCIENCE AND ORIENTALISM; THE TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY; GEOLOGY; BOTANY; SCIENCE IN THE TROPICS; CHAPTER 3 WESTERN MEDICINE IN AN INDIAN ENVIRONMENT; THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE; INDIAN PRACTITIONERS OF WESTERN MEDICINE
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ECOUNTERS WITH INDIAN MEDICINESMALLPOX: FROM VARIOLATION TO VACCINATION; MALARIA AND MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY; CHOLERA: ENVIROMENT, ARMY AND PUBLIC HEALTH; WOMEN, MISSIONS AND MEDICINE; CHAPTER 4 TECHNOLOGIES OF THE STEAM AGE; TEXTILES, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITION; MINES AND METALLURGY; SHIPBUILDING AND STEAMSHIPS; ROADS, RAILWAYS AND THE POWER OF STEAM; TELEGRAPHS; IRRIGATION; TECHNOLOGY, IDEOLOGY AND RESISTANCE; STEAM, SWADEDHI AND SWARAJ; CHAPTER 5 IMPERIAL SCIENCE AND THE INDIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENCE AND THE SERVICES; IMPERIAL SCIENCE; MEDICAL SCIENCE; FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE
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AN INDIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITYCHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; CHAPTER 6 SCIENCE, STATE AND NATION; THE RETURN OF HINDU SCIENCE; THE REVIVAL OF INDIGENOUS MEDICINE; SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE; INSTITUTIONAL SCIENCE; TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; SCIENCE FOR THE NATION; CONCLUSION; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; 1. General; 2. Science under the Company; 3. Colonial Medicine; 4. Technology; 5. Science and Empire; 6. Hindu Science; 7. Science, State and Nation; INDEX
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521563192
Additional Edition:
Print version Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Natural Sciences
