Science and the Indian Tradition (India in the Modern Worldá)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780415402095
Subjects: History of science; History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - General; History / Asia; Asia - India & South Asia; 19th century; 20th century; India; Religion and science; Science
Description: "During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, India experienced an intellectual renaissance that owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. This book examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. It charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and philosophy, historians of science and those interested in the interactions between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought."--Jacket.