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History of science, technology, environment, and medicine in India / edited by Suvobrata Sarkar.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kumar, Deepak, 1952-.
- Kumar, Deepak.
- Science--India--History.
- Science.
- Environmental sciences.
- History.
- India.
- Technology--India--History.
- Technology.
- Environmental sciences--India--History.
- Medicine--India--History.
- Medicine.
- Science--Historiography.
- India--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Suvobrata Sarkar is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. His research explores history of technology in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia. His most recent publication is Let There be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945 (2020).
- Contents:
- Introduction / Suvobrata Sarkar
- Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty / John Mathew
- Examining the foundations of science : an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries / Santanu Chacraverti
- Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak
- a forgotten science propagator from Maharashtra / Abhidha Dhumatkar
- Cultural politics of engagement : Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala / Shiju Sam Varughese
- Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 / Y. Srinivasa Rao
- Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter : Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur in historical perspective / Suvobrata Sarkar
- Of geologists and water-diviners : the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth century India / Kapil Subramanian
- From battlefields to homes : oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India / Sarandha Jain
- Designing scientific mining : evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1930s / Sahara Ahmed
- On grazing lands and cultivated fodder / Himanshu Upadhyaya
- Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s-1960s / Nirmal Kumar Mahato
- Where man meets medicine : some reflections on The death of Ivan Ilyich and Āyurveda with its epistemological consequences / Jayanta Bhattacharya
- Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1910-1947 / B. Eswara Rao
- A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India : an invitation for its construction and rendition / Dhrub Kumar Singh
- Saviour sisters : services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India / Ch. Radha Gayathri.
- Notes:
- "Essays in honour of Professor Deepak Kumar."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: History of science, technology, environment, and medicine in India
- ISBN:
- 9781003241980
- 1003241980
- 9781000485004
- 1000485005
- 9781000484991
- 1000484998
- Publisher Number:
- 40030899329
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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