Quest for Technical Knowledge: Bengal in the Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Sarkar, Suvobrata

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8173049491 ISBN 13 : 9788173049491

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2012

Synopsis

Immense intellectual and cultural stirrings characterised nineteenth-century Bengal. The impact of modern Western culture and consciousness of defeat by a foreign power gave birth to a new awakening. Thoughtful Bengalis were impressed in particular by modern science and technology. The attainment of modern scientific knowledge in colonial Bengal was not purely a question of diffusion. Western science and technology, viewed as cultural import, were actively redefined by the recipient culture. A different society, culture, tradition and existing indigenous knowledge systems provided the background in which the gradual spread of the new knowledge occurred, followed by its adaptation through various reformulations. One of the major sources of dissemination of techno-scientific knowledge to the native society was the contemporary Bengali journals. This book is an account of the Bengali bhadralok's distinctive response to the modern technical knowledge as reflected in the pages of these journals.

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À propos de l'auteur

Suvobrata Sarkar is a Research Scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. His area of interest is the social history of science and technology in colonial Bengal. He has published articles in many journals like the Indian Historical Review, Social Scientist, among others

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8173049491
• ISBN 13: 9788173049491
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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