Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Jawaharlal Nehru on Science and Society
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Science and Society
Author:
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Science and Society in Modern India
Author: Deepak Kumar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100935065X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The book delineates the role and place of the Western scientific discourse which occupied an important place in the colonization of India. During the colonial period, science became one of the foundations of Indian modernity and the nation-state. Gradually, the educated Indians sought to locate modern scientific ideas and principles within Indian culture and adopted those for the economic regeneration of the country. The discursive terrain of the history of science, especially in the context of a society with a very long and complex past, is bound to be replete with numerous debates on its nature and evolution, its changing contours, its complex civilizational journey, and finally, the enormous impact it has on our own life and time. The book offers a useful introduction to science, society, and government interface in the Indian context.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100935065X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The book delineates the role and place of the Western scientific discourse which occupied an important place in the colonization of India. During the colonial period, science became one of the foundations of Indian modernity and the nation-state. Gradually, the educated Indians sought to locate modern scientific ideas and principles within Indian culture and adopted those for the economic regeneration of the country. The discursive terrain of the history of science, especially in the context of a society with a very long and complex past, is bound to be replete with numerous debates on its nature and evolution, its changing contours, its complex civilizational journey, and finally, the enormous impact it has on our own life and time. The book offers a useful introduction to science, society, and government interface in the Indian context.
Science and Society in Traditional & Modern India
Author: Dr. Archana Chaudhary
Publisher: Book Rivers
ISBN: 9358427876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Publisher: Book Rivers
ISBN: 9358427876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Technology at the Core
Author: A. Parthasarathi
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131701706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"The author cites examples like the Suri Transmission and Sharbati Sonora to highlight the human aspect of scientific innovation. Based on the author's experience as Special Assistant, Science & Technology, to Indira Gandhi, and his day-to-day interaction with her on the making and unmaking of S & T policies, this book will be of equal interest to government officials, policy-makers, and the general reader."--Jacket.
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131701706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"The author cites examples like the Suri Transmission and Sharbati Sonora to highlight the human aspect of scientific innovation. Based on the author's experience as Special Assistant, Science & Technology, to Indira Gandhi, and his day-to-day interaction with her on the making and unmaking of S & T policies, this book will be of equal interest to government officials, policy-makers, and the general reader."--Jacket.
Beyond Belief
Author: Srirupa Roy
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822340010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
DIVExamines the formation of the nation-state in postcolonial India, how it worked to create an identity for itself, to what extent it succeeded, and what may be the prospects for unity in a widely diverse country./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822340010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
DIVExamines the formation of the nation-state in postcolonial India, how it worked to create an identity for itself, to what extent it succeeded, and what may be the prospects for unity in a widely diverse country./div
Science and Society
Author: Robert Snedden
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9780836880892
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Explores how scientists practice science, covering the scientific method, famous experiments, how science has improved health and technology, and the moral and ethical aspects of some research.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9780836880892
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Explores how scientists practice science, covering the scientific method, famous experiments, how science has improved health and technology, and the moral and ethical aspects of some research.
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: 1 November - 31 December 1958
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788192427508
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788192427508
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Midnight’s Machines
Author: Arun Mohan Sukumar
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353057086
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Every Prime Minister of independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country's crown jewels-its nuclear and space programmes-to solar stoves and mechanized bullock carts. But a lesser-known political project began on 15 August 1947: the Indian state's undertaking to influence what the citizens thought about technology and its place in society. Beneath its soaring rhetoric on the virtues or vices of technology, the state buried a grim reality: India's inability to develop it at home. The political class sent contradictory signals to the general public. On the one hand, they were asked to develop a scientific temper, on the other, to be wary of becoming enslaved to technology; to be thrilled by the spectacle of a space launch while embracing jugaad, frugal innovation, and the art of 'thinking small'. To mask its failure at building computers, the Indian state decried them in the seventies as expensive, job-guzzling machines. When it urged citizens to welcome them the next decade, the government was, unsurprisingly, met with fierce resistance. From Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, India's political leadership has tried its best to modernize the nation through technology, but on its own terms and with little success. In this engaging and panoramic history spanning the arc of modern India from the post-War years to present day, Arun Mohan Sukumar gives us the long view with a reasoned, occasionally provocative standpoint, using a lens that's wide enough for the frame it encompasses. With compelling arguments drawn from archival public records and open-source reportage, he unearths the reasons why India embraced or rejected new technologies, giving us a new way to understand and appreciate the individual moments that brought the country into the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353057086
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Every Prime Minister of independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country's crown jewels-its nuclear and space programmes-to solar stoves and mechanized bullock carts. But a lesser-known political project began on 15 August 1947: the Indian state's undertaking to influence what the citizens thought about technology and its place in society. Beneath its soaring rhetoric on the virtues or vices of technology, the state buried a grim reality: India's inability to develop it at home. The political class sent contradictory signals to the general public. On the one hand, they were asked to develop a scientific temper, on the other, to be wary of becoming enslaved to technology; to be thrilled by the spectacle of a space launch while embracing jugaad, frugal innovation, and the art of 'thinking small'. To mask its failure at building computers, the Indian state decried them in the seventies as expensive, job-guzzling machines. When it urged citizens to welcome them the next decade, the government was, unsurprisingly, met with fierce resistance. From Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, India's political leadership has tried its best to modernize the nation through technology, but on its own terms and with little success. In this engaging and panoramic history spanning the arc of modern India from the post-War years to present day, Arun Mohan Sukumar gives us the long view with a reasoned, occasionally provocative standpoint, using a lens that's wide enough for the frame it encompasses. With compelling arguments drawn from archival public records and open-source reportage, he unearths the reasons why India embraced or rejected new technologies, giving us a new way to understand and appreciate the individual moments that brought the country into the twenty-first century.
History, Science, and Society in the Indian Context
Author: Arun Kumar Biswas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Asiatic Society, Calcutta Has Been Conducting, Every Year Intensive Short Courses In The Area Of History Of Science. This Monograph Is A Compilation Of Some Of The Lectures Delivered By Experts On Various Facets Of The Broad Theme.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Asiatic Society, Calcutta Has Been Conducting, Every Year Intensive Short Courses In The Area Of History Of Science. This Monograph Is A Compilation Of Some Of The Lectures Delivered By Experts On Various Facets Of The Broad Theme.