Images and Contexts

The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-806880-8
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

Author a well-known historian of Indian science
Wide ranging and comprehensive
Useful book for courses on history of science

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 ist 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.

Zielgruppe

This book will be of immense interest to scholars, teachers, and students of history, philosophy, sociology, and those interested in the growth of science in India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raina, Dhruv

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.: Introduction;
2.: Scientism and Romanticism
3.: P. C. Ray and Marcelin Berthelot;
4.: The Sarton and Coomaraswamy Dialogue;
5.: The Indian Journal of History of Science;
6.: The Missing Picture;
7.: Reconfiguring the Centre;
8.: From West to Non-West;
9.: Future Trajectories;
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dhruv Raina, Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi