Another reason : science and the imagination of modern India /

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"Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound impo...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prakash, Gyan, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1765-1947
Science > India > History.
Science > history
Sciences > Inde > Histoire.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
Civilization.
Politics and government.
Science.
Kultur
Wissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften
Natuurwetenschappen.
Technologie.
Kolonialisme.
Nationalisme > Inde.
India > Politics and government > 1765-1947.
India > Civilization > 1765-1947.
Inde > Civilisation > 1765-1947.
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1765-1947.
India.
Indien
Inde > 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Inde > Influence coloniale.
Arnold, David.
British army.
Calcutta Medical College.
Derrida, Jacques.
East India Company.
Foucault, Michel.
Gupta empire.
Indian National Congress.
Kipling, Rudyard.
Lahore Central Museum.
Nightingale, Florence.
Olcott, Henry.
Saha, Meghnath.
ayurveda.
bhadralok.
brahmacharya.
canals.
colonial medicine.
despotism.
epidemics.
famines.
governmentality.
homeopathy.
idolatry.
industrialization.
lectures.
machinery, evils of.
mesmerism.
mining.
monism.
pamphlets.
positivism.
railways.
sanitation.
technics.
village community.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One: The Sign of Science
  • Part One: Science And The Relocation Of Culture
  • Chapter Two: Staging Science
  • Chapter Three: Translation and Power
  • Chapter Four: The Image of the Archaic
  • Part Two: Science, Governmentality, And The State
  • Chapter Five: Body and Governmentality
  • Chapter Six: Technologies of Government
  • Chapter Seven: A Different Modernity
  • Chapter Eight: Divided Love
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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