TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kumar,Deepak
AU  - Sarkar,Suvobrata
TI  - History of science, technology, environment, and medicine in India
SN  - 9781032148458
U1  - 509.54 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Kumar, Deepak,
KW  - Science
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Technology
KW  - Environmental sciences
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Historiography
N1  - "Essays in honour of Professor Deepak Kumar."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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 post-colonial 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)"--
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