Science and society in India 1750-2000/ Bandopadhyay,Arun [ed.]

1. Introduction
Arun Bandopadhyay
2. HISTEM in South Asia: An Overview
Deepak Kumar
3. Networks of Medicine: Trade and Medico-
Botanical Knowledge on the Eighteenthcentury
Coromandel Coast
Pratik Chakrabarti
4. Mirza Abu Talib and his European Sojourn:
An Indian Savant's Encounter with Modernity
and Science in the Early Nineteenth Century
S. Irfan Habib
5. Imperialism, Medicine, and Women's
Health in Nineteenth-century India
Sujata Mukherjee
6. Plague and Prophylactics: Interrogating
Colonial Medical Intervention in Eastern India
Arabinda Samanta
7. Coping with Epidemic: Responses in
Bombay Presidency, 1900-1919
Mridula Ramanna
8. Seeing Like a River: The Bengal Presidency's
Hydraulic Transition
Rohan D'Souza
9. Technology and Defence Production Personnel
under Colonial Dependence: Cossipore Factory
in the 1890s
Arun Bandopadhyay
10. Communicating Science: The Bose 'Style'
in Perspective
Madhumita Majumdar
11. The World of an Engineer: M. Visvesvaraya and
Irrigation Engineering in Twentieth-century India
Raj Sekhar Basu
12. The Re-inheritance of Heritage: The Construction
of the Shubhankari Tradition in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Bengal
Santanu Chacraverti
13. Finding a Home for the History of Science in
Post-Colonial India (1950-1960): The Influence
of Joseph Needham and the Role of UNESCO
Dhruv Raina
14. Successes and Failures in the Organization of
Research for Industrial Development in the
CSIR System of Laboratories
Dinesh Abrol