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Author Raj, Kapil.

Title Relocating modern science : circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900 / Kapil Raj
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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 Institutionalization 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
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 history, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of intercultural encounter -- here between South Asians and Europeans -- for the emergence of these sciences. It also revisits questions at the heart of research in the social studies of science -- interpersonal trust, replicability, calibration, translation, and the relationship between instruments and embodied skills -- showing the complex nature of their resolution in multicultural, and colonial, contexts. By following practitioners, skills, instruments, and ideas as they moved between continents and communities, this book stresses the crucial role of circulation in the construction and reconfiguration of scientific notions and practices. In addition to engaging with questions central to imperial, colonial, and South Asian history, Relocating Modern Science presents a heuristic model for specialists of other contact zones, periods, and fields of knowledge, as also for transnational and global studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index
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Subject Science -- South Asia -- Historiography
Science -- Europe -- Historiography
Science -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Science -- history
Historiography
historiography.
History: specific events & topics.
History of science.
General & world history.
SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology.
History.
Historiography
Science -- Historiography
Vetenskap -- historia.
Vetenskapshistoria -- historiografi -- Europa.
SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Asia
Europe
Subject Europe
South Asia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230625310
0230625312
9780230238503
0230238505