Relocating modern science : circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900 / Kapil Raj

By: Raj, KapilContributor(s): Raj, KapilMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: xiii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9780230238503Subject(s): Science | Education, research, related topics | Education, research, related topics | Science -- Historiography | Science -- South Asia -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 507.22
Contents:
Introduction -- Surgeons, fakirs, merchants and craftsmen : making L'Empereur's Jardin in early modern South Asia -- Circulation and the emergence of modern mapping : Great Britain and early colonial India, 1764-1820 -- Refashioning civilities, engineering trust : William Jones, Indian intermediaries, and the production of reliable legal knowledge in late-eighteenth-century Bengal -- British Orientalism in the early nineteenth century, or globalism versus universalism -- Defusing diffusionism : the institutionaliztion of modern science education in early-nineteenth-century Bengal -- When human travellers become instruments : the Indo-British exploration of Central Asia in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion : Relocations.
Summary: Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically-ordered case-studies of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, scientific education and colonial administration, at key moments in their histories, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of intercultural encounters between South Asians and Europeans for the emergence of these disciplines."--Jacket
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Introduction --
Surgeons, fakirs, merchants and craftsmen : making L'Empereur's Jardin in early modern South Asia --
Circulation and the emergence of modern mapping : Great Britain and early colonial India, 1764-1820 --
Refashioning civilities, engineering trust : William Jones, Indian intermediaries, and the production of reliable legal knowledge in late-eighteenth-century Bengal --
British Orientalism in the early nineteenth century, or globalism versus universalism --
Defusing diffusionism : the institutionaliztion of modern science education in early-nineteenth-century Bengal --
When human travellers become instruments : the Indo-British exploration of Central Asia in the nineteenth century --
Conclusion : Relocations.

Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically-ordered case-studies of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, scientific education and colonial administration, at key moments in their histories, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of intercultural encounters between South Asians and Europeans for the emergence of these disciplines."--Jacket

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