"In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, We…
Prés. de l'éd.: In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his pr…
"Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate 'big' technologies such as rail…
"In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, We…
"The eight centuries of India's history covered by this volume has, until recently, been seen as a 'dark age' for the development of science in the country. It was however a period of intense debate and advancement in many fields, enriched by the influx of Arabic and Persian sch…
"The eight centuries of India's history covered by this volume has, until recently, been seen as a 'dark age' for the development of science in the country. It was however a period of intense debate and advancement in many fields, enriched by the influx of Arabic and Persian sch…
Introduction / Suvobrata Sarkar -- Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty / John Mathew -- Examining the foundations of science : an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries / Santanu Chacraverti -- Professor Bala…
