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      • David Arnold, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      20 April 2000
      ISBN:
      9781139053426
      9780521563192
      9780521617185
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521563192
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.529kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.529kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
      Series:
      The New Cambridge History of India
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    The New Cambridge History of India
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.

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