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Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation.

Prakash ranges over two hundred years of Indian history, from the early days of British rule to the dawn of the postcolonial era. He begins by taking us into colonial museums and exhibitions, where Indian arts, crafts, plants, animals, and even people were categorized, labeled, and displayed in the name of science. He shows how science gave the British the means to build railways, canals, and bridges, to transform agriculture and the treatment of disease, to reconstruct India's economy, and to transfigure India's intellectual life--all to create a stable, rationalized, and profitable colony under British domination.

But Prakash points out that science also represented freedom of thought and that for the British to use it to practice despotism was a deeply contradictory enterprise. Seizing on this contradiction, many of the colonized elite began to seek parallels and precedents for scientific thought in India's own intellectual history, creating a hybrid form of knowledge that combined western ideas with local cultural and religious understanding. Their work disrupted accepted notions of colonizer versus colonized, civilized versus savage, modern versus traditional, and created a form of modernity that was at once western and indigenous.

Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill. With its deft combination of rich historical detail and vigorous new arguments and interpretations, Another Reason will recast how we understand the contradictory and colonial genealogy of the modern nation.

Reviews:

"Prakash offers a fascinating analysis. . . . The meticulous research and the compelling narrative make this a highly recommended book."--Choice

"Another Reason is an intelligent, sophisticated and lucid work of scholarship, which fills a major gap in the historiography of India."--Zaheer Baber, Times Literary Supplement

Endorsements:

"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

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments ix

CHAPTER ONE The Sign of Science 3

PART ONE SCIENCE AND THE RELOCATION OF CULTURE

CHAPTER TWO Staging Science 17

CHAPTER THREE Translation and Power 49

CHAPTER FOUR The Image of the Archaic 86

PART TWO SCIENCE, GOVERNMENTALITY, AND THE STATE

CHAPTER FIVE Body and Governmentality 123

CHAPTER SIX Technologies of Government 159

CHAPTER SEVEN A Different Modernity 201

CHAPTER EIGHT Divided Love 227

Notes 239

Bibliography 277

Index 295

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出版者:Princeton University Press
作者:Gyan Prakash
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頁數:248
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出版時間:1999-8-9
價格:USD 45.00
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9780691004532
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圖書標籤: 印度  科學史  美國  理論  現代性  新文化史  思想史  史學理論   


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science as culture and power; a "different" modernity that combined scientific legitimacy and Hinduism nationalism as unintended consequences; body as epistemic battle field

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science as culture and power; a "different" modernity that combined scientific legitimacy and Hinduism nationalism as unintended consequences; body as epistemic battle field

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science as culture and power; a "different" modernity that combined scientific legitimacy and Hinduism nationalism as unintended consequences; body as epistemic battle field

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science as culture and power; a "different" modernity that combined scientific legitimacy and Hinduism nationalism as unintended consequences; body as epistemic battle field

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science as culture and power; a "different" modernity that combined scientific legitimacy and Hinduism nationalism as unintended consequences; body as epistemic battle field

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