Science and society in India, 1750-2000
Papers presented at a national seminar on Science and society in modern India, held at Kolkata in 2005
Print Book, English, 2010
Manohar Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, 2010
Conference papers and proceedings
387 pages ; 23 cm.
9788173048548, 8173048541
502268609
Introduction
HISTEM in South Asia : an overview
Networds of medicine : trade and medico-botanical knowledge on the eighteenth century Coromandel Coast
Mirza Abu Talib and his European sojourn : an Indian savant's encounter with modernity and science in the early ninteenth century
Imperialism, medicine, and women's health in nineteenth-century India
Plague and prophylactics : interrogating colonial medical intervention in Eastern India
Coping with epidemic : responses in Bombay Presidency, 1900-1919
Seeing like a river : the Bengal Presidency's hydraulic transition
Technology and defence production personnel under colonial dependence : Cossipore factory in the 1890s
Communicating science : the Bose "style" in perspective
The world of an enginner : M. Visvesvaraya and irrigation enginnering in twentienth-century India
The re-inheritance of heritage : the construction of the Shubhankari tradition in colonial and post-colonial Bengal
Finding a home for the history of sience in post-colonial India (1950-1960) : the influence of Joseph Needham and the role of UNESCO
Successes and failures in the organization of research for industrial development in the CSIR System of Laboratories