TY - BOOK TI - Science and society in India 1750-2000 SN - 9788173048548 U1 - 303.480954 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manohar N1 - 1. Introduction Arun Bandopadhyay 2. HISTEM in South Asia: An Overview Deepak Kumar 3. Networks of Medicine: Trade and Medico- Botanical Knowledge on the Eighteenthcentury Coromandel Coast Pratik Chakrabarti 4. Mirza Abu Talib and his European Sojourn: An Indian Savant's Encounter with Modernity and Science in the Early Nineteenth Century S. Irfan Habib 5. Imperialism, Medicine, and Women's Health in Nineteenth-century India Sujata Mukherjee 6. Plague and Prophylactics: Interrogating Colonial Medical Intervention in Eastern India Arabinda Samanta 7. Coping with Epidemic: Responses in Bombay Presidency, 1900-1919 Mridula Ramanna 8. Seeing Like a River: The Bengal Presidency's Hydraulic Transition Rohan D'Souza 9. Technology and Defence Production Personnel under Colonial Dependence: Cossipore Factory in the 1890s Arun Bandopadhyay 10. Communicating Science: The Bose 'Style' in Perspective Madhumita Majumdar 11. The World of an Engineer: M. Visvesvaraya and Irrigation Engineering in Twentieth-century India Raj Sekhar Basu 12. The Re-inheritance of Heritage: The Construction of the Shubhankari Tradition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bengal Santanu Chacraverti 13. Finding a Home for the History of Science in Post-Colonial India (1950-1960): The Influence of Joseph Needham and the Role of UNESCO Dhruv Raina 14. Successes and Failures in the Organization of Research for Industrial Development in the CSIR System of Laboratories Dinesh Abrol ER -