Science and Technology in Colonial India

This book is a significant contribution to the socio-political history of science and technology in India, combining a wholistic perspective with a strong regional flavour.

Dr.Kamlesh Mohan, Professor and ex-Chairperson in the Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh, is well-known historian on Modern India. Besides her several research articles published in national and international journals, her major publications include Militant Nationalism in the Punjab (1985), Towards Gender History: Images, Identities and Roles of North Indian Women (2006), Punbjab de Hathiarband Sangharshdi Rashtri Sutantarta Andolan Duan Dain (2008), and Rameshwari Nehru (2013).

1. The Colonial Ethnography: Imperial Pursuit of Knowledge for Hegemony in British India (Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century), 2. The Development of Modern Sciences in the Panjab University under Colonial Rule, 1882-1947, 3. Technology and Religion: Recasting Hindu Consciousness Through Print in India with Special Reference to the Punjab During the Nineteenth Century, 4. Ruchi Ram Sahni and the Pursuit of Science in a Colonial Society