History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India

Introduction

Suvobrata Sarkar

Section I: Science and Society

1. Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty

John Mathew

2. Examining the foundations of science: an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries

Santanu Chacraverti

3. Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak - a forgotten science propagator from Maharashtra

Abhidha Dhumatkar

4. Cultural politics of engagement: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala

Shiju Sam Varughese

Section II: Technology and Culture

5. Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930

Y. Srinivasa Rao

6. Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter: Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur a historical perspective

Suvobrata Sarkar

7. Of geologists and water-diviners: the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth century India

Kapil Subramanian

8. From battlefields to homes: oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India

Sarandha Jain

Section III: Environmental Issues

9. Designing scientific mining: evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1930s

Sahara Ahmed

10. On grazing lands and cultivated fodder

Himanshu Upadhyaya

11. Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s-1960s

Nirmal Kumar Mahato

Section IV: Medical Encounters

12. Where man meets medicine: some reflections on The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Ayurveda with its epistemological consequences

Jayanta Bhattacharya

13. Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1910-1947

B Eswara Rao

14. A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India: an invitation for its construction and rendition

Dhrub Kumar Singh

15. Saviour sisters: services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India

Ch. Radha Gayathri