Science and the Raj a study of British India

To what extent were colonial scientific knowledge or discourses used to achieve political and cultural goals? How did the recipient culture appropriate or redefine the metropolitan ideology of science? This book investigates some key questions related to British scientific encounters with India, exp...

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Main Author: Kumar, Deepak
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2006, 2006
Edition:2nd ed
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