| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The Sign of Science -- Part One: Science And The Relocation Of Culture -- Chapter Two: Staging Science -- Chapter Three: Translation and Power -- Chapter Four: The Image of the Archaic -- Part Two: Science, Governmentality, And The State -- Chapter Five: Body and Governmentality -- Chapter Six: Technologies of Government -- Chapter Seven: A Different Modernity -- Chapter Eight: Divided Love -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Arnold, David |
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British army |
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Calcutta Medical College |
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Derrida, Jacques |
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East India Company |
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Foucault, Michel |
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Gupta empire |
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Indian National Congress |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
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Lahore Central Museum |
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Nightingale, Florence |
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Olcott, Henry |
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Saha, Meghnath |
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ayurveda |
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bhadralok |
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brahmacharya |
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canals |
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colonial medicine |
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despotism |
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epidemics |
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famines |
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governmentality |
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homeopathy |
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idolatry |
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industrialization |
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lectures |
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machinery, evils of |
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mesmerism |
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mining |
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monism |
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pamphlets |
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positivism |
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railways |
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sanitation |
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technics |
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village community |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index |
| Subject |
Science -- India -- History
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Science -- history
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HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
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Civilization
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Politics and government
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Science
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Kultur
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Wissenschaft
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Naturwissenschaften
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Natuurwetenschappen.
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Technologie.
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Kolonialisme.
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Sciences -- Inde -- Histoire.
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Nationalisme -- Inde.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Politics and government -- 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064939
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India -- Civilization -- 1765-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064875
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| Subject |
India
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Indien
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Inde -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1765-1947.
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Inde -- Civilisation -- 1765-1947.
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Inde -- 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
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Inde -- Influence coloniale.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780691214214 |
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0691214212 |
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