History of science, technology, environment and medicine in India / edited by Suvobrata Sarkar
Contributor(s): Sarkar, Suvobrata [Editor].
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2022.Description: [xxii], 328p. ; 23.5 cm.ISBN: 9781032307121.Subject(s): History -- India | HistoryDDC classification: 954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | HCC Seminar Library General Stacks | 954 SAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | No : SBT/23-24/07 Date : 30.09.23 | 10663-10 |
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
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