Chapter ID: CBB889013753

Travelling Both Ways: The Adaptation of Disciplines, Scientific Textbooks and Institutions (2011)

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The historiography of sciences, we have been informed, has been parasitic upon the sciences, and as a genre has been the most conservative of the genres of historical writing. 1 However, the externalities and internalities that the history of sciences is bent on identifying, shape the historiography of science itself; and the so called parasitic determinants may well belong to the domain of internalities. Returning to the theme of the present paper, I look at the system of colonial education in British India as a site for the ‘expansion of European science’ in non-Western contexts. Thus while post-colonial theory has since dispensed with and extensively critiqued the notion of ‘European science’, 2 the question of the localization of so-called Western science has been addressed from the perspective of the practitioners of scientific disciplines in research environments.

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Authors & Contributors
Mukharji, Projit Bihari
Harrison, Mark
Arnab Chakraborty
Manjapra, Kris
Wald, Erica
Gibson, Mary Ellis
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Medicine
India, civilization and culture
Health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
India
Great Britain
Japan
Velha Goa (India)
Istanbul (Turkey)
Nigeria
Institutions
East India Company (English)
British East India Company
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