Relocating Modern Science Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900

by Raj, Kapil

• ISBN13: 9780230238503
• ISBN10: 0230238505
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A challenge to the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, education and colonial administration, Raj demonstrates the crucial role of intercultural encounter and circulation.

Author Biography

KAPIL RAJ teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and is a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré for the History of Science. He has published extensively on knowledge construction through processes of intercultural encounter and is currently working on a book on the urban and intellectual dynamics of Calcutta in the 18th century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftsmen: Making L'Empereur's Jardin in Early Modern South Asia	p. 27
From a Forgotten Codex in a Paris Archive…	p. 31
…to Eastern India in the Seventeenth Century	p. 34
The Origins of the Jardin de Lorixa	p. 35
Making the Jardin de Lorixa	p. 40
The Jardin de Lorixa and the Hortus Malabaricus	p. 44
L'EmpereurÆs Jardin Comes to Paris…	p. 52
…And Gets Anonymized in the Jardin du Roi	p. 54
Circulation and the Emergence of Modern Mapping: Great Britain and Early Colonial India, 1764–1820	p. 60
Early Modern British and Indian Geographical Practices	p. 65
The Emergence of Large-scale Surveying in India and Britain	p. 73
The Emergence of the Map as an 'Objective' Geographical Representation	p. 82
Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust: William Jones, Indian Intermediaries, and the Production of Reliable Legal Knowledge in Late-Eighteenth-Century Bengal	p. 95
A Day in the Life of a Calcutta Judge	p. 95
Trust and Civility in Knowledge Production	p. 102
Science and the East India Company	p. 107
The Making of an Orientalist	p. 114
Jones in India	p. 119
The Jonesian Legacy Revisited	p. 134
British Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century, or Globalism versus Universalism	p. 139
Britain and the French Revolution	p. 140
India, Britain, and France at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	p. 143
A College to Counter the French	p. 146
The College in the Context of British Institutions	p. 153
Defusing Diffusionism: The Institutionalization of Modern Science Education in Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal	p. 159
A College for the Instruction of Modern Science	p. 159
Modern Science and the Self-fashioning of the Bhadralok	p. 165
Learning among the British in the Early Nineteenth Century	p. 169
Indigenous Representations of Science: Two Examples	p. 173
When Human Travellers become Instruments: The Indo-British Exploration of Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century	p. 181
Kashmir, 1863	p. 181
Eastern Turkistan, 1865–4	p. 187
Tibet, 1864–6	p. 192
High Asia, 1868–82	p. 198
Tibet, 1904	p. 202
Instruments, Travel, and Science	p. 202
Conclusion: Relocations	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 265
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