Science and Society in Modern India

Kumar, Deepak

ISBN 10: 1009350641 / ISBN 13: 9781009350648

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18396097631

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Titel: Science and Society in Modern India

Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2023

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: New

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Offers a comprehensive introduction to science, society, and government interface in the Indian context.

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Deepak Kumar is Honorary Professor, Department of History, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. He has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, has held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, London, Leiden, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. and has also taught at Wisconsin University, Madison, USA, and York University in Toronto, Canada. He has recently published Aatam Khabar: Sanskriti, Samaj aur Hum (Aakar Books, 2022) and 'Culture' of Science and the Making of India (Primus, 2022). For more than four decades, he has tried to popularize History of Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine (HISTEM). He has also authored Science and the Raj, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2006) and The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self and Society in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 2016).