Images and Contexts : The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India
by
Dhruv Raina
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198068808
ISBN-13
9780198068808
Publisher
OUP India
Imprint
OUP India
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2010
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
268 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.70 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historyAsian historyHistory of science
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This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Focussing on several strands from the corpus of writing over the last 150 years, it examines the paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities.
This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Focussing on several strands from the corpus of writing over the last 150 years, it examines the paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book explores ideas about the interplay between scientism and romanticism, internal and external accounts of science, creative tension between scientism and romanticism, model of colonial science and its relationship with the emergence of national science, and distortions of nationalist historiography. These ideas are analysed in the light of contemporary researches in the sociology of sciences, human sciences as well as from a global perspective.
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