Decolonizing Science and Modernity in South Asia: Questioning Concepts, Constructing Histories

Ahmed, Sahara, Sarkar, Suvobrata

Decolonizing Science and Modernity in South Asia: Questioning Concepts, Constructing Histories
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-24
  • 售價: $4,640
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 358
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 9819718287
  • ISBN-13: 9789819718283

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商品描述

This book offers a unique perspective on the colonial roots of modern science, technology, and medicine (STM) in South Asia. The book questions the deconstruction of imperial visions and definitions of science and modernity in South Asia. It presents an in-depth analysis of the contested relationship between science, modernity, and colonialism. It explores how new research can contribute to the diversification of perspectives in the history and sociology of modern South Asian studies. The chapters in the book delve into various aspects of STM in South Asia. It covers diverse topics, including the social, cultural, and pedagogic context of early modern Bengal, the popularization of science in colonial Punjab, the Hindi science periodical Vigyan, and the emergence of the Indian science community. The book also examines the intersection of indigenous medical practices, ayurveda, and medical revivalism and highlights peripheral creativity in science. The contributors engage with the existing historiography to raise new questions concerning the global circulations of scientific knowledge from the perspective of South Asia and the regional appropriation of the same. It connects the history of science and modernity with South Asia's socio-economic and cultural background. It offers valuable insights into the decolonization of STM. It greatly interests scholars and students of modern South Asian history, sociology, social anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS).

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書提供了對南亞現代科學、技術和醫學（STM）殖民根源的獨特視角。書中質疑了南亞帝國視野及科學與現代性的定義的解構，並深入分析了科學、現代性與殖民主義之間的爭議關係。它探討了新研究如何有助於豐富現代南亞研究的歷史與社會學視角。書中的各章節深入探討了南亞STM的不同面向，涵蓋了多樣的主題，包括早期現代孟加拉的社會、文化和教學背景、殖民時期旁遮普的科學普及、印地語科學期刊《Vigyan》，以及印度科學社群的興起。本書還檢視了本土醫療實踐、阿育吠陀與醫療復興之間的交集，並突顯了科學中的邊緣創造力。貢獻者們與現有的歷史學文獻互動，提出了關於南亞視角下科學知識全球流通及其區域性挪用的新問題。它將科學與現代性的歷史與南亞的社會經濟和文化背景相連結，並提供了對STM去殖民化的寶貴見解。本書對現代南亞歷史、社會學、社會人類學以及科學、技術與社會研究（STS）的學者和學生具有極大的吸引力。

作者簡介

Sahara Ahmed is Professor at the Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Calcutta. Her research interests include histories of ecology, environment, and sustainable development, health and medicine in colonial and post-colonial contexts. She is the author of Woods, Mines and Minds: Politics of Survival in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals, 1860-1970 (Primus, 2019). Her most recent publications--'Epidemics and the Indigenous Tribes: Sub-Himalayan Bengal and the Jungle Mahals', in Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen (eds.), Epidemic Encounters, Communities in the Colonial World (Lexington Books, 2023), and 'Designing scientific mining: evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1960s', in Suvobrata Sarkar (ed.), History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India (Routledge, 2022). She is the secretary of the Society for the History of Science Kolkata


Suvobrata Sarkar teaches history at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He obtained his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research explores the history of technology in the context of the 19th and 20th century South Asia. Sarkar is the author of Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), in addition to several articles and book chapters. He has also edited the History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India (Routledge, 2022). He received the Maurice Daumas Prize 2019 from the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

薩哈拉·艾哈邁德（Sahara Ahmed）是印度加爾各答拉賓德拉·巴拉特大學歷史系的教授。她在加爾各答大學獲得博士學位。她的研究興趣包括生態、環境和可持續發展的歷史，以及殖民和後殖民背景下的健康與醫學。她是《森林、礦山與心智：1860-1970年賈爾帕伊古里及叢林馬哈爾的生存政治》（Primus, 2019）的作者。她最近的出版物包括與普納姆·巴拉（Poonam Bala）和拉塞爾·維爾喬恩（Russel Viljoen）編輯的《流行病與原住民部落：次喜馬拉雅的孟加拉與叢林馬哈爾》，收錄於《流行病遭遇：殖民世界中的社區》（Lexington Books, 2023），以及與蘇沃布拉塔·薩卡爾（Suvobrata Sarkar）編輯的《科學採礦的設計：演變與實施，約1860年代至1960年代》，收錄於《印度的科學、技術、環境與醫學史》（Routledge, 2022）。她是加爾各答科學史學會的秘書。

蘇沃布拉塔·薩卡爾（Suvobrata Sarkar）在加爾各答拉賓德拉·巴拉特大學教授歷史。他在新德里尼赫魯大學獲得博士學位。他的研究探討19世紀和20世紀南亞的技術歷史。薩卡爾是《讓光明降臨：殖民孟加拉的工程、創業與電力，1880-1945》（劍橋大學出版社，2020）的作者，並發表了多篇文章和書籍章節。他還編輯了《印度的科學、技術、環境與醫學史》（Routledge, 2022）。他於2019年獲得國際技術史委員會（ICOHTEC）頒發的莫里斯·多馬斯獎（Maurice Daumas Prize）。

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