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Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. The New Cambridge History of India , Vol. III, bk. 5
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 252–253.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Lynn Zastoupil Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. The New Cambridge History of India , Vol. III, bk. 5 . By David Arnold . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . xii, 234 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001...
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The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 808–809.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Lynn Zastoupil The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India . By Zaheer Baber . Albany : State University of New York , 1996 . x, 298 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 808...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and <span class="search-highlight">Colonial</span> Rule in India
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Science and the Raj, 1857–1905 Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700–1947 Colonialism, Chemical Technology and Industry in Southern India, 1880–1937
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 824–828.
Published: 01 August 1997
... their own contributions that unsurprisingly happen to be in the area which has allegedly not been covered by existing studies. However, given the rich analyses of literally every facet of colonial rule in India, the lack of serious studies of the intersection of colonialism with science and technology...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> and the Raj, 1857–1905 Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700–1947 <span class="search-highlight">Colonialism</span>, Chemical Technology and Industry in Southern India, 1880–1937
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Scientific Empire and Imperial Science: Colonialism and Irrigation Technology in the Indus Basin
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1127–1149.
Published: 01 November 1994
...David Gilmartin Abstract In the eyes of many colonial administrators in the nineteenth century, the advance of science and the advance of colonial rule went hand in hand: Science helped to secure colonial rule, to justify European domination over other peoples, and to transform production...
View articletitled, Scientific Empire and Imperial <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>: <span class="search-highlight">Colonialism</span> and Irrigation Technology in the Indus Basin
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An Atomic Age Unleashed: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 144–162.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to leave the fact of the bombings in a colonial past. [email protected] © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Science War atomic bomb postcolonial erasure Student Y's shift away from a biographical narrative form is abrupt, but this turn to academic authority is no less...
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Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815–1853
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 250–252.
Published: 01 February 2001
... for labor and race relations in Mauritius itself. DAVID ARNOLD School of Oriental and African Studies Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. The New Cambridge History of India, Vol. Ill, bk. 5. By D A V I D A R N O L D . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 234 pp. $59-95...
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Science and Social Science Research in British India, 1780–1880: The Role of Anglo-Indian Associations and Government
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 962–963.
Published: 01 November 1991
... of Missouri-Kansas City Science and Social Science Research in British India, 1780-1880: The Role of Anglo-Indian Associations and Government. By E D W A R D W . ELLSWORTH. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 28. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. xvi, 220 pp. $47.95. The role of science...
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Past Perfect: Architecture and Public Life in Bangalore
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1205–1236.
Published: 01 November 2002
... to be screened in the decent draperies of pre-industrial artistic styles. Science and law were modern truth, but beauty came from history" (1981, 45). Quotations from the past were equally the mark of architectural styles that were forged in colonial and postcolonial societies, as history became a resource...
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JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 929–955.
Published: 01 November 2016
...), and Countdown (1999)—rests on a PhD in social anthropology from Oxford. He went to Alexandria, Egypt, for his dissertation research. His science fiction, The Calcutta Chromosome , won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997. His essays—published in The New Yorker, The New Republic , and The New York Times...
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Justices and Paṇḍitas : Some Ironies in Contemporary Readings of the Hindu Legal Past
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 757–769.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Richard W. Lariviere Abstract India's history provides one of the best documented examples of colonialism. The British kept meticulous records of their attempts to improve, govern, and even exploit the people and institutions of the subcontinent. Improvement and government often occurred...
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The Causes of an Involuted Society: A Theoretical Approach to Rural Southeast Asian History
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 783–795.
Published: 01 August 1971
...John A. Larkin Abstract As historians of Southeast Asia turn to the study of rural history, they will have to resort increasingly to theoretical aids as an answer to the paucity of written records. Such theory, drawn from the other social sciences, must be shaped and tested to fit the needs...
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“Modernization” and Agrarian Development in India, 1912–52
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 633–658.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 agrarian history Allahabad Agricultural Institute American land grants colonial science India missionaries modernization Rockefeller Foundation self-help This paper explores the agrarian ideals of American Presbyterian...
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Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon, 1602–1796: A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference with Selected Eye-Witness Accounts
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 961–962.
Published: 01 November 1991
.... By E D W A R D W . ELLSWORTH. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 28. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. xvi, 220 pp. $47.95. The role of science in the history of colonial empire is a subject of increasing historical interest. In this study, Edward Ellsworth focuses on the roles...
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Nature in Its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 1989
... chapters devoted to "Metropolitan Perspectives and Colonial Science" add to the growing body of scholarship concerning science at the periphery and its relationship to metropolitan centers. David Frodin's account of the growth of European knowledge of the natural history of New Guinea, an excellent...
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Buddhist Hermeneutics
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 February 1989
... cultural bias distorted descriptions of the Tasmanians by comparing them to either children or primitive people. Three chapters devoted to "Metropolitan Perspectives and Colonial Science" add to the growing body of scholarship concerning science at the periphery and its relationship to metropolitan centers...
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Urbanisation in Early Historic India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 963–964.
Published: 01 November 1991
... chronological sequence. Perhaps equally important, the book's many insights are undercut by a failure to fully ground the discussion of imperial science within current debates among historians about the nature of colonial empire and the role of scientific knowledge in its construction. Ellsworth notes...
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Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 819–853.
Published: 01 August 2008
... influenced by Locke and Hume, were “relentlessly matter-of-fact and empirical. Geography was a science of measurement and description,” interrupted every now and then with “unsystematic racialist assertion” ( 1996 , 311–12). In particular, the method of colonial geography was “deliberately dry and un...
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Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922–1939
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 157–180.
Published: 01 February 2016
... service of the Indochinese central government, in 1929 it was established as an autonomous institution under the joint patronage of the French Academy of Colonial Science and the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, and funded by a generous subvention of 220,000 piasters annually from...
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Japanese Imperialism and Environmental Disease on a Soy Frontier, 1890–1940
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2019
...—so that readers could compare the full extent of their condition. Hieda aimed to construct a metric to show how the disease progressed over time, and yet the photograph now evinces how Japanese investigators objectified their patients in the name of colonial science (Hieda 1935 , 18). Japanese...
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Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth: Nonviolence and the Biomoral Imperative of Public Health
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 May 1996
... bean, six ounces of buttermilk, two ounces of arbardal, an ounce of jaggery, and so forth, in smaller and smaller increments, of spinach, amaranth, potatoes, colacasia, and coconut oil, thus tabulating a perfect, costeffective, simple diet. Colonialism, Science and National Health With only a slight...
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