History Of Science And Technology : Exploring New Themes
Language: English
Published by Rawat, 2011
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Contents Preface 1 IntroductionRattan Lal Hangloo 2 Narmada Homo Erectus the most primitive human fossil of IndiaArun Sonakia 3 Megalithic high tin bronzesSharada Srinivasan 4 Crafts on the move the case of the megaliths of peninsular IndiaJaya Menon 5 In search of technology journey from Ai Khanum to Mathura via Taxila 200 BC-AD 300Suchandra Ghosh 6 Architecture and technological advancement a case study of select forts of DeccanMN Rajesh and M Ramakrishna 7 A social history of a minor technology the tradition of bronzes brass bell metal and Dokra manufacture in BengalNupur Dasgupta 8 Craft technologies and craft communities in peninsular India an overview of sixteenth to eighteenth centuriesVijaya Ramaswamy 9 Glimpses of craft technology in KashmirRattan Lal Hangloo 10 Textile technology in medieval Orissa a case study of production and export during seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesKN Sethi 11 Hydraulics and water management at Fatehpur SikriSyed Ali Nadeem Rezavi 12 Air dynamics and building construction in medieval India a case study of Sheesh Mahal of FarrukhnagarSS Subodh 13 Minting technology in Mughal IndiaNajaf Haider 14 Massive forge-welded iron cannons of IndiaR Balasubramaniam 15 Scientific attitudes in medieval North India context nature and articulation AD 1000-1500Surinder Singh 16 Mining and metallurgy in medieval DeccanS Jay Kishan 17 Science and Islam from pluralism to religious essentialismS Irfan Habib 18 The Needham-Hora controversy disagreements over the chronology and approach to the history of scienceDhruv Raina 19 Building interdisciplinary scientific specialties a case of the solid state and structural chemistry unit IISc BangaloreDebasmita Patra E Haribabu and PK Basu 20 Technology of defence production in India under British rule Cossipore factory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesArun Bandopadhyay 21 Jawaharlal Nehru and science and technology the 1958 scientific policy resolution reconsideredNasir TyabjiDespite being a relatively new entrant to the domain of history the history of science and technology has attracted a substantial number of researchers into its fold More important it is now being taught as an important component of the postgraduate course in history in several universitiesThe present book defines science and technology in different historical and cultural perspectives because historians must always be attentive to the consequences of knowledge The variety of essays in this volume is a fascinating glimpse of the cornerstones of the history of science and technology in India They touch upon the themes ranging from the most primitive human fossils of India to the reconsideration of the scientific policy resolution in Nehruvian era and analyze the key dynamics of how our present has come about There is something eminently and undeniably noble about this volume because its goal is to suggest a sound start for examining the nature and consequences of the significant advances made by Indian science and technology from antiquity down to our own times 318 pp.…
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- History Of Science And Technology : Exploring New Themes
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- Edited by Rattan Lal Hangloo
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- Rawat
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- 2011
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- ISBN 13
- 9788131604267
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