Science and the Raj a study of British India
Kumar, DeepakAuthor
New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
To what extent were colonial scientific knowledge or discourses used to achieve political and cultural goals? How did the recipient culture appropriate or redefine the metropolitan ideology of science? This book investigates some key questions related to British scientific encounters with India, exploring the link between science technology and the process of colonisation in the context of British India.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
To what extent were colonial scientific knowledge or discourses used to achieve political and cultural goals? How did the recipient culture appropriate or redefine the metropolitan ideology of science? This book investigates some key questions related to British scientific encounters with India, exploring the link between science technology and the process of colonisation in the context of British India.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Sciences - General