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Dhruv Raina
Images and Contexts [EPUB ebook]
The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India

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This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several strands from the corpus of writing over the past 150 years and places them within the context of their times. It analyses ideas about the interplay between centre and periphery, 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 the distortions of nationalist historiography.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780199088294 ● Publisher OUP India ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5282170 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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