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This course will deal the social history of, and the historiographical debates surrounding, science in Modern India.
- Colonialism, Imperialism and the emergence of modern western science in India.
- Policies of the colonial state and scientific institutions.
- The origin, development and institutionalisation of scientific disciplines: Geology, Geography, Cartography, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
- Science in the Age of Nationalism and Indian scientific community.
- Science on the eve of Indian Independence.
- Science and Industry: A historical overview.
- Historiography of Science in India.
- Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj, 1857-1905, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1995.
- Zaheer Baber, The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization and Colonial Rule in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1998.
- Dhruv Raina and S. Irfan Habib, Domesticating Modern Science: A Social History of Science and Culture in Colonial India, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2004.
- S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (eds)., Social History of Science in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007.
- Shiv Visvanathan, Organizing for Science: The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1985.
- Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- David Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
- Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, Abacus, 1991.
- Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodernism, Science and Hindu Nationalism, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2004.
- S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (eds)., Social History of Science in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007.
- Shiv Visvanathan, Organizing for Science: The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1985.
- Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- David Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
