Author: Abdur Rahman
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Transcript of lectures.

Author: Surajit Sinha
Publisher: New Delhi : Research Council for Cultural Studies, India International Centre; [exclusively distributed by Munshiram Manoharlal]
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: J. N. Nanda
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131728185
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1240

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Author: Abdur Rahman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Helaine Selin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792340669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1170

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The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud ies. Reference works on other cultures tend either to omit science completely or pay little attention to it, and those on the history of science almost always start with the Greeks, with perhaps a mention of the Islamic world as a trans lator of Greek scientific works. The purpose of the Encyclopaedia is to bring together knowledge of many disparate fields in one place and to legitimize the study of other cultures' science. Our aim is not to claim the superiority of other cultures, but to engage in a mutual exchange of ideas. The Western aca demic divisions of science, technology, and medicine have been united in the Encyclopaedia because in ancient cultures these disciplines were connected. This work contributes to redressing the balance in the number of reference works devoted to the study of Western science, and encourages awareness of cultural diversity. The Encyclopaedia is the first compilation of this sort, and it is testimony both to the earlier Eurocentric view of academia as well as to the widened vision of today. There is nothing that crosses disciplinary and geographic boundaries, dealing with both scientific and philosophical issues, to the extent that this work does. xi PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Many years ago I taught African history at a secondary school in Central Africa.

Author: Renny Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000534316
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’ religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and ‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.

Author: Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000485005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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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. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East–West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).

Author: A. Rahman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195646528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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This volume brings together some of today's leading scholars from a range of different disciplines to explore the development of Indian scientific, technological and cultural thinking between the 10th and 18th centuries. The diverse topics include: food, agriculture, mathematics, astronomy, Bhakti and Sufi movements, and the spread of translation from Persian and Arabic thinkers throughout the country.

Author: Philosophy and Culture Project of History of Indian Science
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788187586272
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 827

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