modern science
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David
Arnold’s wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to Western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and Western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state scientific services, ‘imperial science’ and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science. DAVID ARNOLD is Professor of South Asian History at the School of
Oriental and African Studies, London. His publications include The Problem of
Nature () and Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in
Nineteenth-Century India ().
THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA
General editor G J
President of Wolfson College, and Director, Centre of South Asian Studies,
University of Cambridge
Associate editors C. A. B
Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St Catharine’s College
and J F. R
Professor of History, Duke University
Although the original Cambridge History of India, published between and , did much to formulate a chronology for Indian history and describe the administrative structures of government in India, it has inevitably been overtaken by the mass of new research over the last sixty
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David
Arnold’s wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to Western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and Western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state scientific services, ‘imperial science’ and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science. DAVID ARNOLD is Professor of South Asian History at the School of
Oriental and African Studies, London. His publications include The Problem of
Nature () and Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in
Nineteenth-Century India ().
THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA
General editor G J
President of Wolfson College, and Director, Centre of South Asian Studies,
University of Cambridge
Associate editors C. A. B
Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St Catharine’s College
and J F. R
Professor of History, Duke University
Although the original Cambridge History of India, published between and , did much to formulate a chronology for Indian history and describe the administrative structures of government in India, it has inevitably been overtaken by the mass of new research over the last sixty