Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India

Klappentext An historical reinterpretation of the role of science, technology and medicine in the making of colonial India. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; General editor's preface; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: science, colonialism and modernity; 2. Science under the East India Company; 3. Western medicine in an Indian environment; 4. Technologies of the steam age; 5. Imperial science and the Indian scientific community; 6. Science, state and nation; Conclusion; Biographical notes; Bibliographical essay; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Arnold
• Assisted by: Christopher Alan Bayly (Editor), Gordon Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2000
• EAN: 9780521563192
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56319-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Cambridge History of India; New Cambridge History of India
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous