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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abha Sur
Published: New Delhi Navayana 2011
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500 |a This book is a step toward 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 analyzes the confluence of caste, nationalism, and gender in modern science in India, and unpacks the colonial context in which science was organized. 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. The bulk of the book examines the science and scientific practice of India s two preeminent physicists in the first half of the twentieth century 
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