HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Exploring New Themes

Despite being a relatively new entrant to the domain of history, the history of science and technology has attracted a substantial number of researchers into its fold. More important, it is now being taught as an important component of the postgraduate course in history in several universities.

The present book defines science and technology in different historical and cultural perspectives because historians must always be attentive to the consequences of knowledge. The variety of essays in this volume is a fascinating glimpse of the cornerstones of the history of science and technology in India. They touch upon the themes ranging from the most primitive human fossils of India to the reconsideration of the scientific policy resolution in Nehruvian era and analyze the key dynamics of how our present has come about. There is something eminently and undeniably noble about this volume because its goal is to suggest a sound start for examining the nature and consequences of the significant advances made by Indian science and technology from antiquity down to our own times.

Rattan Lal Hangloo is a Professor of History at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Earlier, he was Professor, Centre for South and Central Asian Studies & Dean School of Global Relations at Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. He also headed the Chair of Indian Studies at University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, and has been awarded several fellowships including Fulbright. He was also visiting professor at University of Delaware (USA), University of Michigan (USA), Heidelberg University (Germany), Bamberg University (Germany), and Ashkhabad University (Turkmenistan). Besides seven books, he has published over eighty papers in national and international journals. At present Professor Hangloo occupies the Chair of Indian Studies at Tbilisi University at Georgia.