Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India

by Gyan Prakash (Author)

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  1999

  $59.95

  A study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. It explores the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. It reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason.