History of Science and Colonialism – List

This list is a collection of suggestions from various sources. This list is continuously updated.

General Readings on Science and Colonialism

David Arnold, “Disease, Medicine and Empire,” in David Arnold, ed.,

Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies, Manchester University Press, 1988

Disease, Medicine, and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion. Edited By Roy MacLeod and Milton Lewis. London: Routledge, 1988

Raj, Kapil. “Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science.” Isis 104, no. 2 (2013): 337-47. doi:10.1086/670951.

Raj, Kapil. Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Anker, Peder. Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Petitjean, Patrick, Catherine Jami, and Anne Marie Moulin. Science and Empires: Historical Studies About Scientific Development and European Expansion. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.

Lightman, Bernard V., and Gordon McOuat. The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China the Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century. Leiden: BRILL, 2013.

Geographical

INDIA

Arnold, David. Science, technology and medicine in colonial India. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press, 2000

Prakash, Gyan. 1999. Another reason: science and the imagination of modern India. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Kumar, Prakash. 2012. Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Baber, Zaheer. 1996. The science of empire : Scientific knowledge, civilization, and colonial rule in India. Albany: State University of New York Press

Bala, Arun. 2012. Asia, Europe, and the emergence of modern science: knowledge crossing boundaries. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan

Chakrabarti, Pratik. Western science in modern India: metropolitan methods, colonial practices. Orient Blackswan, 2004.

Habib, S. Irfan, and Dhruv Raina. “Copernicus, Colombus, Colonialism and the Role of Science in Nineteenth Century India.” Social Scientist (1989): 51-66.

Lightman, Bernard V., and Gordon McOuat. The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China the Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century. Leiden: BRILL, 2013.

Raina, Dhruv. “Reconfiguring the Centre: The structure of scientific exchanges between colonial India and Europe.” Minerva 34.2 (1996): 161-176.

Science and Empire: Essays in indian context, 1700-1947 1991. , eds. Deepak Kumar, National Institute of Science, Technology, and Development Studies (India). Delhi: Anamika Prakashan.

Social history of science in colonial India 2007. , eds. S. Irfan Habib, Dhruv Raina and Zaheer Baber. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India 2009, eds. Biswamoy Pati, Mark Harrison. New York: Routledge.