Science and Society in Modern India

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Deepak Kumar

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The book delineates the role and place of the Western scientific discourse which occupied an important place in the colonization of India. During the colonial period, science became one of the foundations of Indian modernity and the nation-state. Gradually, the educated Indians sought to locate modern scientific ideas and principles within Indian culture and adopted those for the economic regeneration of the country. The discursive terrain of the history of science, especially in the context of a society with a very long and complex past, is bound to be replete with numerous debates on its nature and evolution, its changing contours, its complex civilizational journey, and finally, the enormous impact it has on our own life and time. The book offers a useful introduction to science, society, and government interface in the Indian context.

Author Biography:

Deepak Kumar is Honorary Professor, Department of History, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. He has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, has held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, London, Leiden, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. and has also taught at Wisconsin University, Madison, USA, and York University in Toronto, Canada. He has recently published Aatam Khabar: Sanskriti, Samaj aur Hum (Aakar Books, 2022) and 'Culture' of Science and the Making of India (Primus, 2022). For more than four decades, he has tried to popularize History of Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine (HISTEM). He has also authored Science and the Raj, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2006) and The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self and Society in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Release date Australia

August 24th, 2023

Author

Deepak Kumar

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

220

Dimensions

151x229x11

ISBN-13

9781009350648

Product ID

38261742

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