Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India Paperback - 1999
by Gyan Prakash
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"In this tour de force of historical scholarship and archival invention, Gyan Prakash focuses on the political culture of scientific thought as the crucible of emergent Indian nationalism. He produces a brilliant genealogy of 'colonial modernity, ' agile and attentive to contemporary postcolonial questions: the contradictory desires for both science and tradition, 'newness' and orthodoxy, the secular and the sacred. Immersed in such complexities, Prakash retrieves the aspirational, progressive voices of the freedom movement to address contemporary Indian life. This is a superb work of historical revision by a writer of great insight and imagination."--Homi Bhabha, University of Chicago
"This is a pathbreaking work. It adds a new dimension to the study of colonialism by holding up the mirror of science to the Raj and reciprocally that of governmentality to science in a colonial condition. Caught up in this double reflection, the problem of modernity appears in a fresh but disturbing light. A truly brilliant achievement."--Ranajit Guha
"Gyan Prakash mounts a powerful and sustained argument in this book for treating the dissemination of science in colonial India not, as conventional historiography would have it, as the gradual supersession of backwardness and superstition and the spread of universal enlightenment, but as a case of hybrid growth. As is to be expected from Prakash, the research is meticulous and solid and his presentation is clear and forceful."--Partha Chatterjee, author of The Nation and Its Fragments
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- Title Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India
- Author Gyan Prakash
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Softcover
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 1999-08-29
- ISBN 9780691004532 / 0691004536
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.19 x 6.34 x 0.78 in (23.34 x 16.10 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Library of Congress subjects India - Politics and government - 1765-1947, Science - India - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99017185
- Dewey Decimal Code 954
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