Main entry:

Prakash, Gyan, 1952-

Title & Author:

Another reason : science and the imagination of modern India / Gyan Prakash.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.

Description:

xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
Ch. 1. The Sign of Science -- Ch. 2. Staging Science -- Ch. 3. Translation and Power -- Ch. 4. The Image of the Archaic -- Ch. 5. Body and Governmentality -- Ch. 6. Technologies of Government -- Ch. 7. A Different Modernity -- Ch. 8. Divided Love.

Summary:

"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 importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason - and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation." "Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0691004528 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780691004525 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0691004536 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691004532 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0691334528
9780691334523

Subject:

Science India History.
Science history
Sciences Inde Histoire.
30.01 history of the exact sciences.
15.75 history of 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 Politique et gouvernement 1765-1947.
Inde Civilisation 1765-1947.
India
Indien
Inde 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Inde Influence coloniale.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269440
Call No.: BIB 201692
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available