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Cognitive encounters in India during the age of imperialism
The British presence in India set the scene for a number of cognitive encounters,' the nature and scale of which varied considerably over time. I shall examine four of these encounters, three of them initiated by Britons from 1790 over a period of fifty years and the fourth by an Indian writing...
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Race Class 1995; 36; 39
1995
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| Acceso en liña: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/00675.pdf |
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| 100 | |a George Gheverghese Joseph | ||
| 245 | |a Cognitive encounters in India during the age of imperialism | ||
| 260 | |c 1995 | ||
| 260 | |b Race Class 1995; 36; 39 | ||
| 520 | |a The British presence in India set the scene for a number of cognitive encounters,' the nature and scale of which varied considerably over time. I shall examine four of these encounters, three of them initiated by Britons from 1790 over a period of fifty years and the fourth by an Indian writing in 1859.' Each of the encounters will be examined from the written records left by the protagonists and their commentators or critics. The framework within which such an examination 4t'lll take place is the changing nature of British rule over India and the growing self-confidence of European scicnce which went hand in hand w ith the spread of the imperialist ideology of dominance. I am interested in investigating how the naive wonder and respect for the antiquity and achievement of Indian exact sciences (notably astronomy), exemplified in its last phase in the writings of Reuben Burrow ( 1783), was soon replaced by a more measured though slightly condescending assessment of 'Hindu IIStrOllonly~ by John Playfair. This was then followed by thc silence and indifference that met the startling disclosures of Charles Whish on the beginnings of mathematical analysis in Kerala, two hundred years before its appearance in Europe. In the last case study. I examine an unsuccessful attempt by Yesudas Ramchandra in the post- Macaulayan period to graft traditional Indian mathematics on to modern mathematics education. | ||
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