Needham’s Indian Network traces the attempts to create a space for the disciplinary history of sciences in India in the first few decades after Independence. It does so by narrating the efforts of an important transnational network of historians and historians of science who attempted to institutionalize the history of science in India during the 1950s- a crucial decade as far as science and technology in India are concerned. An important part of this network was the remarkable intellectual and historian of science, Joseph Needham. This book delineates, for the first time, the connection between Needham and Indian historians of science as well as his lasting influence on many of them. During the first decade in the life of a newly independent nation, historians of science like A.Rahman tried to develop a curriculum for undergraduate and graduate teaching, while reflecting on the prioritization of research themes and programmes, and the central concerns of the historiography of science. With its narrative located at the end of the Second World War and the first decade of decolonisation, this book also focuses on the problematic nature of the historiography of science and its relation with theories of modernity and modernization that were central to the projects of nation building.
...MoreReview Leon Antonio Rocha (June 2020) Review of "Needham's Indian Network the Search for a Home for the History of Science in India". East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 419-422).
Review Francesca Bray (2016) Review of "Needham's Indian Network the Search for a Home for the History of Science in India". History of Science in South Asia (pp. 1-6).
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