History of science, technology, environment, and medicine in India

"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 In...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sarkar, Suvobrata 1982- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Suvobrata Sarkar
  • Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty / John Mathew
  • Examining the foundations of science : an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries / Santanu Chacraverti
  • Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak
  • a forgotten science propagator from Maharashtra / Abhidha Dhumatkar
  • Cultural politics of engagement : Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala / Shiju Sam Varughese
  • Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 / Y. Srinivasa Rao
  • Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter : Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur in historical perspective / Suvobrata Sarkar
  • Of geologists and water-diviners : the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth century India / Kapil Subramanian
  • From battlefields to homes : oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India / Sarandha Jain
  • Designing scientific mining : evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1930s / Sahara Ahmed
  • On grazing lands and cultivated fodder / Himanshu Upadhyaya
  • Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s-1960s / Nirmal Kumar Mahato
  • Where man meets medicine : some reflections on The death of Ivan Ilyich and Āyurveda with its epistemological consequences / Jayanta Bhattacharya
  • Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1910-1947 / B. Eswara Rao
  • A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India : an invitation for its construction and rendition / Dhrub Kumar Singh
  • Saviour sisters : services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India / Ch. Radha Gayathri