Science and the Raj a study of British India

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, exp...

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Main Author: Kumar, Deepak
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2006, 2006
Edition:2nd ed
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Item Description:Previous ed.: 1995
Physical Description:xix, 309 p., [12] p. of plates 1 ill., ports
ISBN:9780199081684