Dispersed radiance: caste, gender, and modern science in India

By:

Sur, Abha

Publication details: New Delhi: Navayana Publishing, 2022.Description: 286p.: pbk.: 21cmISBN:

9788195539246

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.512954 SUR

Summary: This book is a step towards writing a socially informed history of physics in India in the first half of the twentieth century. Through a series of micro histories of physics, Abha Sur analyses the confluence of caste, nationalism and gender in modern science in India and unpacks the colonial context in which science was organised. She examines the constraints of material reality and ideologies on the production of scientific knowledge and discusses the effect of the personalities of dominant scientists on the institutions and academies they created. https://www.amazon.in/Dispersed-Radiance-Gender-Modern-Science/dp/8189059327

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	305.512954 SUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		033999

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This book is a step towards writing a socially informed history of physics in India in the first half of the twentieth century. Through a series of micro histories of physics, Abha Sur analyses the confluence of caste, nationalism and gender in modern science in India and unpacks the colonial context in which science was organised. She examines the constraints of material reality and ideologies on the production of scientific knowledge and discusses the effect of the personalities of dominant scientists on the institutions and academies they created.

https://www.amazon.in/Dispersed-Radiance-Gender-Modern-Science/dp/8189059327

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