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Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521563192
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India written by David Arnold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India

Author : Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000485005
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India written by Suvobrata Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East–West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).

The New Cambridge History of India

Author : David Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511089688
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge History of India written by David Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the start of East India Company rule to Independence, this analytical study demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India.

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India

Author : Shinjini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420621
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India written by Shinjini Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

Leprosy in Colonial South India

Author : J. Buckingham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403932735
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Leprosy in Colonial South India written by J. Buckingham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.

The Science of Empire

Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791429204
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Empire written by Zaheer Baber and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-05-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

Western Science in Modern India

Author : Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788178240787
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Western Science in Modern India by : Pratik Chakrabarti

Download or read book Western Science in Modern India written by Pratik Chakrabarti and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Social History of Science in Colonial India

Author : S. Irfan Habib
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Social History of Science in Colonial India written by S. Irfan Habib and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Science and the Raj

Author : Deepak Kumar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Science and the Raj written by Deepak Kumar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Science and the Raj] explores the link between science, technology, and the process of colonization in the context of British India."--Dust jacket.

Contesting Colonial Authority

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739170244
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Colonial Authority written by Poonam Bala and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.

Public Health in British India

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466882
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Public Health in British India written by Mark Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, and the way in which these were reflected in medical literature and medical policy; the fate of public health at local level under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The book places medicine within the context of debates about the government of India, and relations between rulers and ruled. In emphasising the active role of the indigenous population, and in its range of material, it differs significantly from most other work conducted in this subject area.

Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India, 1830-1980

Author : Smritikumar Sarkar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198092308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India, 1830-1980 written by Smritikumar Sarkar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Calcutta as the hub, eastern India was the gateway of technology transmission to India. This book explores the social history of this transmission, from the colonial metropolis to the interior, and analyses the context and results of technology induction to the villages. Based on local level sources, it also looks into why technology failed to accelerate development in India as against its impact in the West.

Doctoring Traditions

Author : Projit Bihari Mukharji
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022638313X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Doctoring Traditions written by Projit Bihari Mukharji and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is considerable interest now in the contemporary lives of the so-called traditional medicines of South Asia and beyond. "Doctoring Traditions, "which examines Ayurveda in British India, particularly Bengal, roughly from the 1860s to the 1930s, is a welcome departure even within the available work in the area. For in it the author subtly interrogates the therapeutic changes that created modern Ayurveda. He does so by exploring how Ayurvedic ideas about the body changed dramatically in the modern period and by breaking with the oft-repeated but scantily examined belief that changes in Ayurvedic understandings of the body were due to the introduction of cadaveric dissections and Western anatomical knowledge. "Doctoring Traditions" argues that the actual motor of change were a number of small technologies that were absorbed into Ayurvedic practice at the time, including thermometers and microscopes. In each of its five core chapters the book details how the adoption of a small technology set in motion a dramatic refiguration of the body. This book will be required reading for historians both of medicine and South Asia.

Medicine and Colonialism

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317318218
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Colonialism written by Poonam Bala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

Medical Encounters in British India

Author : Deepak Kumar
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780198089216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Medical Encounters in British India written by Deepak Kumar and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the nature of interactions between the East and the West in the field of medicine.It focuses on examples from India's medical tradition and the challenges it faced when modern medical system entered the country as part of the British colonial rule.

Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine

Author : Alan Kam Leung Chan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981448864X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine by : Alan Kam Leung Chan

Download or read book Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine written by Alan Kam Leung Chan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations. It is the third in a series of books growing out of the tri-annual International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, the largest and most prestigious gathering of scholars in the field. The current volume broadens the field's traditional focus on China to include path-breaking work on Vietnam, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and even the transmission of Asian science and technology to Europe and the United States. Topics covered include: traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino medicines; Chinese astronomy; Japanese earthquakes; science and technology policy; architecture; the digital revolution; and much else.

Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India

Author : Sujata Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199468225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India written by Sujata Mukherjee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work traces the growth of hospital medicine in nineteenth century Bengal and shows how it created a space-albeit small-for providing western health care to female patients. It observes that, unlike in the colonial setup, before the advent of hospital medicine women were treated mostly by female practitioners of indigenous therapies who had commendable skill as practitioners. The book also explores the linkages of growth of medical education for women and the role of the Brahmo Samaj in this process. The manuscript tackles several crucial questions including those of racial discrimination, reproductive health practices, sexual health, famines and mortality, and the role of women's agencies and other organizations in popularizing western medicine and healthcare.