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The ‘culture’ of science and colonial culture, India 1820–1920

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Deepak Kumar
Deepak Kumar
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National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Dr K. S. Krishnan Road, Pusa, New Delhi-110012, India.
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The culture of science is deeply influenced and conditioned by the socio-political realities of both time and locale. Pre-colonial India, for example, was no tabula rasa. It had a vigorous tradition in at least the realms of mathematics, astronomy and medicine. But gradual colonization made a big dent. It brought forth a massive cultural collision which influenced profoundly the cognitive and material existence of both the colonizer and the colonized.

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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 195 - 209
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1996

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