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Author : Chittabrata Palit
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN :
Articles with reference to Bengal, India, and erstwhile East Bengal (Pakistan), now Bangladesh.
Author : J. Lourdusamy
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9788125026747
This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal. His analysis of the careers of two scientists, J. C. Bose and P. C. Ray, and two institution builders, Mahendralal Sircar and Asutosh Mookerjee, brings to light the issues related to science at a time of colonialism and nationalism. Scientists often had to depend on British institutions for legitimation and funding, while also supporting the nationalist cause for greater autonomy. One of the central claims of this book is that the protagonists aimed to contribute to a modern world science, one based on a strong sense of universalism. They did not aim to construct any alternative sciences, though they did express and apply their work by drawing on their cultural heritage. This makes Science and National Consciousness a work of particular relevance today, when a homogenous, instrumentalist and totally Western conception of science is being globally accepted.
Author : Chittabrata Palit
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN :
A Social history of science, it comprises essays in the history of science, technology, Medicine and environment in colonial Bengal, which was the first conquered colony of British India, bridgehead of all British projects in the rest of India and the Seconding board of all British theories and practices of science. The issues discussed in this volume can be easily generalized and applied in other case studies in India at both Macro and Micro levels.
Author : Joydeep Sen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822981653
Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics. Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British. He shows that from the mid-nineteenth century, Indians were not passive receivers of European knowledge, but active participants in modern scientific observational astronomy.
Author : Somaditya Banerjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317024702
This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956). The analytical category "bhadralok physics" is introduced to explore how it became possible for a highly successful brand of modern science to develop in a country that was still under colonial domination. The term Bhadralok refers to the then emerging group of native intelligentsia, who were identified by academic pursuits and manners. Exploring the forms of life of this social group allows a better understanding of the specific character of Indian modernity that, as exemplified by the work of bhadralok physicists, combined modern science with indigenous knowledge in an original program of scientific research. The three scientists achieved the most significant scientific successes in the new revolutionary field of quantum physics, with such internationally recognized accomplishments as the Saha ionization equation (1921), the famous Bose-Einstein statistics (1924), and the Raman Effect (1928), the latter discovery having led to the first ever Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist from Asia. This book analyzes the responses by Indian scientists to the radical concept of the light quantum, and their further development of this approach outside the purview of European authorities. The outlook of bhadralok physicists is characterized here as "cosmopolitan nationalism," which allows us to analyze how the group pursued modern science in conjunction with, and as an instrument of Indian national liberation.
Author : Projit Bihari Mukharji
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0857289950
This book seeks to move emphasis away from the over-riding importance given to the state in existing studies of 'western' medicine in India, and locates medical practice within its cultural, social and professional milieus. Based on Bengali doctors writings this book examines how various medical problems, challenges and debates were understood and interpreted within overlapping contexts of social identities and politics on the one hand, and their function within a largely unregulated medical market on the other.
Author : Deepak Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009350633
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 : Semantī Ghosha
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : 9780199087389
This work claims that there were many different nationalisms in colonial Bengal. It shows that Bengali Muslims were not opposed to Hindu-Muslim unity, but keen to work on this unity on a regional level. It also shows that Bengali Hindu nationalism was also not a homogeneous body of thought.
Author : Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1000485005
This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East–West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).
Author : Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108835988
This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945.