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The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Colección: | Empires in Perspective Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of Bengali and Sanskrit words
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Writing a history of modern science in South Asia
- Overview
- Reconfiguring the term bhadralok
- History of physics
- Postcolonial theory
- Science studies in India
- Bhadraloks, nationalism, and scientific modernity
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Bhadralok culture and the making of Satyendranath Bose
- Bhadraloks, the Indian intelligentsia
- The making of a modern Indian scientist
- First appointment and training
- The reception of relativity in India and the making of Bose
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Satyendranath Bose and the concept of light quantum
- Local Visvajaneenata cosmopolitanism of Bose's science
- Bose's physics
- Years in Dhaka
- Notes
- Chapter 4 Colonial modernity and C.V. Raman: Verifying the light quantum
- Biographical comments
- En route towards the discovery of the Raman Effect
- Building an international image
- Explaining the effect
- Raman Effect and Quantum Physics
- The place of the Raman Effect in the history of quantum physics
- Work by Landsberg and Mandelstam: The simultaneous discovery of Raman Effect, the Nobel Prize of 1930, and Stigler's Law of Eponymy
- Sommerfeld and the reception of Raman's work in Germany: Orientalism and science
- Between nationalism and regionalism
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Meghnad Saha: Applying the light quantum
- The transition from shudra to bhadralok
- Saha's scientific pursuits
- Nationalism
- After the European sojourn
- Social dimensions of science: Rivers and water
- Science and the nation
- On the margins of the nation
- Saha's scientism
- Notes
- Chapter 6 Reflections on bhadralok physics
- Satyendranath Bose: Counting modernity
- C.V. Raman: Verifying modernity
- Meghnad Saha: Applying modernity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Archives and special collections
- Personal collections
- Journal archives
- Newspapers
- Interviews
- Secondary sources
- Appendix
- Index