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9780198068808
Publication date:
02/06/2010
Paperback
248 pages
216x140mm
Price: 445.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198068808
Publication date:
02/06/2010
Paperback
248 pages
Part of Oxford India Paperbacks
Dhruv Raina
Author a well-known historian of Indian science,Wide ranging and comprehensive,Useful book for courses on history of science
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Dhruv Raina
Description
This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Focussing on several strands from the corpus of writing over the last 150 years, it examines the paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities.
The book explores ideas about the interplay between scientism and romanticism, internal and external accounts of science, creative tension between scientism and romanticism, model of colonial science and its relationship with the emergence of national science, and distortions of nationalist historiography. These ideas are analysed in the light of contemporary researches in the sociology of sciences, human sciences as well as from a global perspective.
About the Author
Dhruv Raina, Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Dhruv Raina
Table of contents
1.: Introduction;
2.: Scientism and Romanticism
3.: P. C. Ray and Marcelin Berthelot;
4.:The Sarton and Coomaraswamy Dialogue;
5.: The Indian Journal of History of Science;
6.: The Missing Picture;
7.:Reconfiguring the Centre;
8.: From West to Non-West;
9.:Future Trajectories;
Bibliography
Dhruv Raina
Description
This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Focussing on several strands from the corpus of writing over the last 150 years, it examines the paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities.
The book explores ideas about the interplay between scientism and romanticism, internal and external accounts of science, creative tension between scientism and romanticism, model of colonial science and its relationship with the emergence of national science, and distortions of nationalist historiography. These ideas are analysed in the light of contemporary researches in the sociology of sciences, human sciences as well as from a global perspective.
About the Author
Dhruv Raina, Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Table of contents
1.: Introduction;
2.: Scientism and Romanticism
3.: P. C. Ray and Marcelin Berthelot;
4.:The Sarton and Coomaraswamy Dialogue;
5.: The Indian Journal of History of Science;
6.: The Missing Picture;
7.:Reconfiguring the Centre;
8.: From West to Non-West;
9.:Future Trajectories;
Bibliography
