Images and Contexts : The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India

Name: Images and Contexts
Brand: OUP India
SKU: 9780198068808
Price: 2900 KES
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ISBN: 9780198068808

by Dhruv Raina

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Format 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 history Asian history History of science

KSh 2,900.00

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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. 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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