Relocating modern science: circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900

A challenge to the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, education and colonial administration, Raj demonstrates the crucial role of intercultural encounter and circulation. INDICE: Introduction - Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants and Craftsmen: Making L'Empereur's Jardin in Early Modern South Asia - Circulation and the Emergence of Modern Mapping: Great Britain and Early Colonial India, 1764-1820 - Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust: William Jones, Indian Intermediaries, andthe Production of Reliable Legal Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal - British Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century, or Globalism versus Universalism - Defusing Diffusionism: the Institutionalization of Modern Science Education in Early Nineteeth-Century Bengal - When Human Travellers become Instruments: the Indo-British Exploration of Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23850-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés