The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India (S U N Y SERIES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY) - Hardcover

Baber, Zaheer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791429199 ISBN 13: 9780791429198

Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR, 1996

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In Science, Civilization, and Empire in India, Zaheer Baber analyzes the social context of the origins and development of science and technology in India from antiquity through colonialism to the modern period. The focus is on the two- way interaction between science and society: how specific social and cultural factors led to the emergence of specific scientific/technological knowledge systems and institutions that transformed the very social conditions that produced them. A key feature is the author's analysis of the role of pre-colonial trading circuits and other institutional factors in transmitting scientific and technological knowledge from India to other civilizational complexes. A significant portion represents an analysis of the role of modern science and technology in the consolidation of the British empire in India.

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Zaheer Baber is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

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• Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791429199
• ISBN 13: 9780791429198
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 299
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