History of science, technology, environment and medicine in India
edited by Suvobrata Sarkar
- New York Routledge 2022
- [xxii], 328p. ; 23.5 cm.
Includes appendices, bibliography and index.
Introduction / PART I : SCIENCE AND SOCIETY : Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty / Examining the foundations of science : an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries / Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak : a forgotten science propagator / Cultural politics of engagement : Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala / PART II : TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE : Electricity and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 / Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter : Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, a historical perspective / Of geologists and water-diviner : the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth-century India / From battlefield to homes : oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India / SECTION III : ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES : Designing scientific mining : evolution and implementation, c.1860s - 1960s / On grazing lands and cultivated fodder / Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s - 1960s / SECTION IV : MEDICAL ENCOUNTERS : When man meets medicine : some reflections on the death of Ivan Ilyich and Ayurveda with its epistemological consequences / Therapeutic practices of tuberculosis in the Madras presidency, 1910-1947 / A case for the social history of homeopathic hospitals in India : an invitation for its construction and rendition / Saviour sister : service of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India / Suvobrata Sarkar -- John Mathew -- Santanu Chacraverti -- Abhidha Dhumatkar -- Shiju Sam Varughese -- Y. Srinivasa Rao -- Suvobrata Sarkar -- Kapil Subramania -- Sarandha Jain -- Sahara Ahmed -- Himanshu Upadhyaya -- Nirmal Kumar Mahato -- Jayanata Bhattacharya -- B. Eswara Rao -- Dhrub Kumar Singh -- Ch. Radha Gayathri