The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India

✍ Scribed by Zaheer Baber

Publisher: SUNY Press
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Series: SUNY Series in Science, Technology, and Society
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.In Science, Civilization, and Empire in India, Zaheer Baber analyzes the social context of the origins and development of science and technology in India from antiquity through colonialism to the modern period. The focus is on the two- way interaction between science and society: how specific social and cultural factors led to the emergence of specific scientific/technological knowledge systems and institutions that transformed the very social conditions that produced them. A key feature is the author's analysis of the role of pre-colonial trading circuits and other institutional factors in transmitting scientific and technological knowledge from India to other civilizational complexes. A significant portion represents an analysis of the role of modern science and technology in the consolidation of the British empire in India.Zaheer Baber is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowle

📁 The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India

✍ Zaheer Baber 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 State University of New York Press 🌐 English

In Science, Civilization, and Empire in India, Zaheer Baber analyzes the social context of the origins and development of science and technology in India from antiquity through colonialism to the modern period. The focus is on the two-way interaction between science and society: how specific social

The science of empire : scientific knowl

📁 The science of empire : scientific knowledge, civilization, and colonial rule in India

✍ Zaheer Baber 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 State University of New York Press 🌐 English

Women of India: Colonial and Post-coloni

📁 Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods (History of Science, Philosophy, and Culture in Indian Civilization, Part 3)

✍ Bharati Ray 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 SAGE Publications 🌐 English

This valuable reference work, the first volume in the SAGE series History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, offers insights into the lives of Indian women by taking into account the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender. T

The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial R

📁 The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge

✍ Arndt Brendecke 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 De Gruyter Oldenbourg 🌐 Spanish

<p>How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Bren

The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial R

📁 The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge

✍ Arndt Brendecke 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 De Gruyter Oldenbourg 🌐 English

Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginning

📁 Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India

✍ Jana Tschurenev 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English