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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1. Verfasser: Kumar, Deepak 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2006
Ausgabe:2nd ed
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Previous ed.: 1995
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 309 p.)
ISBN:9780199081684
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195687149.001.0001