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ANOTHER REASON Science and the Imagination of Modern India GYAN PRAKASH SC 1999
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- “Pages in excellent condition with no marks or tears. X on bottom page ends. Cover is excellent.”
- ISBN
- 9780691004532
- Subject Area
- Psychology, Science, History, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Another Reason : Science and the Imagination of Modern India
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- Creative Ability, General, Asia / India & South Asia, World / Asian, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation. Prakash ranges over two hundred years of Indian history, from the early days of British rule to the dawn of the postcolonial era. He begins by taking us into colonial museums and exhibitions, where Indian arts, crafts, plants, animals, and even people were categorized, labeled, and displayed in the name of science. He shows how science gave the British the means to build railways, canals, and bridges, to transform agriculture and the treatment of disease, to reconstruct India's economy, and to transfigure India's intellectual life--all to create a stable, rationalized, and profitable colony under British domination. But Prakash points out that science also represented freedom of thought and that for the British to use it to practice despotism was a deeply contradictory enterprise. Seizing on this contradiction, many of the colonized elite began to seek parallels and precedents for scientific thought in India's own intellectual history, creating a hybrid form of knowledge that combined western ideas with local cultural and religious understanding. Their work disrupted accepted notions of colonizer versus colonized, civilized versus savage, modern versus traditional, and created a form of modernity that was at once western and indigenous. Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry ), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill. With its deft combination of rich historical detail and vigorous new arguments and interpretations, Another Reason will recast how we understand the contradictory and colonial genealogy of the modern nation.
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Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691004536
ISBN-13
9780691004532
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626641
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Another Reason : Science and the Imagination of Modern India
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Creative Ability, General, Asia / India & South Asia, World / Asian, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology, Science, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
99-017185
Intended Audience
College Audience
Lc Classification Number
Ds463.P67 1999
Reviews
Prakash offers a fascinating analysis. . . . The meticulous research and the compelling narrative make this a highly recommended book., " Another Reason is an intelligent, sophisticated and lucid work of scholarship, which fills a major gap in the historiography of India."-- Zaheer Baber, Times Literary Supplement, " Another Reason is an intelligent, sophisticated and lucid work of scholarship, which fills a major gap in the historiography of India." --Zaheer Baber, Times Literary Supplement, Prakash offers a fascinating analysis. . . . The meticulous research and the compelling narrative make this a highly recommended book. -- Choice, Another Reason is an intelligent, sophisticated and lucid work of scholarship, which fills a major gap in the historiography of India., Another Reason is an intelligent, sophisticated and lucid work of scholarship, which fills a major gap in the historiography of India. -- Zaheer Baber, Times Literary Supplement, "Prakash offers a fascinating analysis. . . . The meticulous research and the compelling narrative make this a highly recommended book."-- Choice, Another Reasonis an intelligent, sophisticated and lucid work of scholarship, which fills a major gap in the historiography of India., "Prakash offers a fascinating analysis. . . . The meticulous research and the compelling narrative make this a highly recommended book." -- Choice, Another Reasonis an intelligent, sophisticated and lucid work of scholarship, which fills a major gap in the historiography of India. -- Zaheer Baber, Times Literary Supplement
Table of Content
Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE The Sign of Science 3 PART ONE SCIENCE AND THE RELOCATION OF CULTURE CHAPTER TWO Staging Science 17 CHAPTER THREE Translation and Power 49 CHAPTER FOUR The Image of the Archaic 86 PART TWO SCIENCE, GOVERNMENTALITY, AND THE STATE CHAPTER FIVE Body and Governmentality 123 CHAPTER SIX Technologies of Government 159 CHAPTER SEVEN A Different Modernity 201 CHAPTER EIGHT Divided Love 227 Notes 239 Bibliography 277 Index 295
Copyright Date
1999
Dewey Decimal
954
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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