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The New Cambridge History of India Vol. 3.5: Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India

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Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 3.5

Author David Arnold

Publication Date 2000

Hardback ISBN-10
0521563194

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521563192

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521563192

Overview

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.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India in the Cambridge University Press online
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction: science, colonialism and modernity

Science under the company

Western medicine in an Indian environment

Technologies of the steam age

Imperial science and the Indian scientific community

Science, state and nation

Conclusion

Biographical notes

Bibliographical essay

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