History of science, technology, environment and medicine in India / edited by Suvobrata Sarkar

Includes appendices, bibliography and index.

Introduction / Suvobrata Sarkar -- PART I : SCIENCE AND SOCIETY : 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 / Abhidha Dhumatkar -- Cultural politics of engagement : Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala / Shiju Sam Varughese -- PART II : TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE : Electricity and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 / Y. Srinivasa Rao -- Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter : Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, a historical perspective / Suvobrata Sarkar -- Of geologists and water-diviner : the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth-century India / Kapil Subramania -- From battlefield to homes : oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India / Sarandha Jain -- SECTION III : ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES : Designing scientific mining : evolution and implementation, c.1860s - 1960s / Sahara Ahmed -- On grazing lands and cultivated fodder / Himanshu Upadhyaya -- Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s - 1960s / Nirmal Kumar Mahato -- SECTION IV : MEDICAL ENCOUNTERS : When man meets medicine : some reflections on the death of Ivan Ilyich and Ayurveda with its epistemological consequences / Jayanata Bhattacharya -- Therapeutic practices of tuberculosis in the Madras presidency, 1910-1947 / B. Eswara Rao -- A case for the social history of homeopathic hospitals in India : an invitation for its construction and rendition / Dhrub Kumar Singh -- Saviour sister : service of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India / Ch. Radha Gayathri