History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India

Herausgeber: Sarkar, Suvobrata

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781032148458
• ISBN-10: 1032148454
• Artikelnr.: 62799408

Autorenporträt

Suvobrata Sarkar is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. His research explores history of technology in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia. His most recent publication is Let There be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945 (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Suvobrata Sarkar
Section I: Science and Society
1. Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve
Chuckerbutty
John Mathew
2. Examining the foundations of science: an essay on Ramendra Sundar
Trivedi's epistemological inquiries
Santanu Chacraverti
3. Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak - a forgotten science propagator from
Maharashtra
Abhidha Dhumatkar
4. Cultural politics of engagement: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the
shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala
Shiju Sam Varughese
Section II: Technology and Culture
5. Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930
Y. Srinivasa Rao
6. Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter: Bengal Engineering
College, Sibpur a historical perspective
Suvobrata Sarkar
7. Of geologists and water-diviners: the quest for groundwater knowledge in
mid-twentieth century India
Kapil Subramanian
8. From battlefields to homes: oil's imperial and quotidian life in
colonized and independent India
Sarandha Jain
Section III: Environmental Issues
9. Designing scientific mining: evolution and implementation, c.
1860s-1930s
Sahara Ahmed
10. On grazing lands and cultivated fodder
Himanshu Upadhyaya
11. Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in
Purulia, 1890s-1960s
Nirmal Kumar Mahato
Section IV: Medical Encounters
12. Where man meets medicine: some reflections on The Death of Ivan Ilyich
and ¿yurveda with its epistemological consequences
Jayanta Bhattacharya
13. Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras
Presidency, 1910-1947
B Eswara Rao
14. A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India: an
invitation for its construction and rendition
Dhrub Kumar Singh
15. Saviour sisters: services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in
late colonial India
Ch. Radha Gayathri