Kapil Raj
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 329805 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kapil Raj |
| NOMBRES | Kapil |
| APELLIDO | Raj |
| FIRMA | RAJ K |
| AFILIACIONES | École des hautes études en sciences sociales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1243-2754 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
L’histoire des sciences, l’histoire intellectuelle et le monde, 1900-2020
L’article examine la formation et l’évolution parallèle de l’histoire intellectuelle (ou histoire des idées) et de l’histoire des sciences entre 1900 et 2020. Il met en parallèle les contextes politiques et intellectuels dans lesquels ces deux disciplines ont vu le jour pendant l’entre-deux-guerres, leur évolution après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, – en particulier leur instrumentalisation pendant la Guerre froide –, ainsi que les répercussions de…
Teaching the history of science within a global context
For the past 150 years, Science has become central to public issues, arbitrating all aspects of human life and defining what is natural and rational. Teaching the history of science by emphasising its dynamics as a social institution and the resulting stakes in global, national, and local politics is crucial for understanding the contemporary world. This article describes a course in this discipline that challenges traditional Western perspective…
Interview
Interview - Kapil Raj and Thomás A. S. Haddad : Following the Actors Beyond Science and Empire
Politics, geopolitics, and the history of science
Since the institutionalisation of the history of science as a discipline in the early 1950s, the "Scientific Revolution" has been its master narrative and central organising principle. However, this narrative has attracted critical scrutiny since the last decades of the twentieth century. For many historians, the idea of the Scientific Revolution was formulated when the history of science was confined overwhelmingly to North American and British …
When Scottish medicine hospitalized Indian magic
In order to explore the ways knowledge travels across spatial and cultural boundaries, this article focuses on the intriguing case of the Edinburgh-trained Scottish surgeon James Esdaile (1808–59), who, after practising conventional surgery for almost fifteen years in British colonial India, quite unexpectedly turned to mesmeric anaesthesia in the last five years of his service. By following his career and his mesmeric turn, the article describes…
Beyond Science and Empire
William Jones and Intercultural Knowledge Production
KEYWORDS: history of scienceintercultural encounterhistory of knowledgeBritish imperial and colonial historycross-cultural studies
William Jones (1746–1794)
Networks of knowledge, or spaces of circulation? The birth of British cartography in colonial south Asia in the late eighteenth century
Of the many domains of history, there is at least one – the history of science – that has since its institutionalization in the interwar years, always proclaimed its universal status. Indeed, Georg
Thinking Without the Scientific Revolution
Amongst the many narrative strategies in the recent “global turn” in the history of science, one commonly finds attempts to complement the single European story by multiplying histories of knowledge-making in as many different regional and cultural contexts as possible. Other strategies include attempts to generalize the “Needham Question” of why the Scientific Revolution occurred only in early-modern Europe to the exclusion of other parts of the…
Anna Winterbottom Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, xii-324 p
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Cartographier l'humanité depuis Calcutta
Au cours des dernières décennies, des historiens des sciences ont de plus en plus remis en question la croyance largement répandue que le savoir n'a rien à voir avec le lieu de son élaboration. Le domaine a ainsi pris un tournant spatial. Grâce à un examen des écrits de Sir William Jones (1746-1794) pendant son séjour indien, en particulier sa généalogie de l'humanité suivant le Déluge, cette étude vise à mettre en lumière le rôle crucial de l'in…
Tradução por
Este ensaio traça a evolução paralela, mas não relacionada, de dois conjuntos de reações à história idealista tradicional da ciência em um contexto histórico-mundial. Apesar de os estudiosos que promoveram a abordagem pós-colonial terem favorecido uma visão idealista ao lidar com a ciência moderna não-ocidental, eles, no entanto, enfatizaram suas bases políticas e ideológicas e se envolveram com a questão de suas supostas raízes ocidentais. A his…
Beyond Postcolonialism ... and Postpositivism
This essay traces the parallel, but unrelated, evolution of two sets of reactions to traditional idealist history of science in a world-historical context. While the scholars who fostered the postcolonial approach, in dealing with modern science in the non-West, espoused an idealist vision, they nevertheless stressed its political and ideological underpinnings and engaged with the question of its putative Western roots. The postidealist history o…
The historical anatomy of a contact zone
Founded in 1690 as an entrepôt by the English East India Company, Calcutta has been at the intersection of a number of heterogeneous long- and short-range networks of trade, finance, diplomacy, law, crafts and learning. This article explores the history of the first century of its existence during which it grew from insignificance to become the second most important city of the British Empire. During this period Calcutta also emerged as a world-c…
Les outils de la pensée
Les « textes » qui nous entourent et qui circulent dans notre société moderne - livres, journaux, tableaux, diagrammes, cartes, etc. - sont des outils importants qui nous aident à réaliser des opérations mentales et cognitives de traitement de l'information : communiquer, représenter, mémoriser, comparer, classifier, etc. Ces outils de la pensée, dont l'utilité nous paraît évidente, ont toutefois noué et nouent encore des relations complexes et v…
Introduction
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Régler les différends, gérer les différences
Créée de toutes pièces à partir de 1690 par la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales,Calcutta va se transformer en à peine un siècle en la deuxième ville de l'Empire britannique.Durant la même période,elle émerge aussi comme une des capitales mondiales des sciences.Zone de contact entre cultures européennes et asiatiques, Calcutta fournit un exemple de choix pour étudier à nouveaux frais la co-construction urbaine et savante: c'est le brassage …
Conclusion
T his book began with the observation that modern science is widely considered to be a purely West European creation and then went on to present a brief account of academic conceptions and debates of its relationship to other societies and cultures. These have centred either on the epistemological, sociological, and economic uniqueness of the West, or else highlighted the mechanisms of its worldwide spread. Adducing historical evidence around spe…
When Human Travellers become Instruments
On a warm spring day in May 1863 two men, a South Asian and a European, are walking endlessly up and down a sinuous mountain path in the Himalayan heights somewhere to the east of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. A pilgrim’s staff in hand, the former leads the way, the latter closely follows meticulously counting and measuring his companion’s paces: yes, his two thousand steps do indeed make a mile. Suddenly they stop, light a small oil stove an…
Defusing Diffusionism
O n 14 May 1816 a group of more than fifty Hindus gathered at the house of Sir Edward Hyde East, chief justice in the Supreme Court of Calcutta, to discuss the foundation of a college in order to introduce into India ‘the literature and science of Europe’ in a liberal manner and without any reference to Christianity. 1 These men all came from Calcutta’s rising Hindu elite who, like the city in which they lived, owed their raison d’être and prospe…
British Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century, or Globalism versus Universalism
T he end of the eighteenth century is commonly considered crucial in the transition from the gentleman-amateur tradition based on private initiative in science in Britain (but also elsewhere in Europe) to one based on organized public instruction and research. This story is normally told as a purely European one, which then affected the rest of the world inasmuch as this newly institutionalized form of science was progressively deployed in the se…
Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust
The crowing of the cock awoke Sir William Jones, puisne (or junior) judge at the Supreme Court at Calcutta, on the morning of 2 February 1786, as indeed it had every morning since his arrival in India barely two and a half years earlier.1 Leaving his wife Anna Maria to her dreams, he rose silently from his bed and stepped out of his palatial garden house in the exclusive suburb of Garden Reach. Dawn had not quite broken as he walked up the road t…
The frontiers of science
Relocating Modern Science
Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history
Colonial Encounters and the Forging of New Knowledge and National Identities
In opposition both to the dominant vision of colonial science as an hegemonic European enterprise whose universalization can be conceived of in purely diffusionist terms, and to the more recent perception of it as a simple reordering of indigenous knowledge within the European canon, this essay seeks to show the complex reciprocity involved in the making of science within the colonial context. Based on the example of India during the first centur…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The historical anatomy of a contact zone
Founded in 1690 as an entrepôt by the English East India Company, Calcutta has been at the intersection of a number of heterogeneous long- and short-range networks of trade, finance, diplomacy, law, crafts and learning. This article explores the history of the first century of its existence during which it grew from insignificance to become the second most important city of the British Empire. During this period Calcutta also emerged as a world-c…
Networks of knowledge, or spaces of circulation? The birth of British cartography in colonial south Asia in the late eighteenth century
Of the many domains of history, there is at least one – the history of science – that has since its institutionalization in the interwar years, always proclaimed its universal status. Indeed, Georg
Thinking Without the Scientific Revolution
Amongst the many narrative strategies in the recent “global turn” in the history of science, one commonly finds attempts to complement the single European story by multiplying histories of knowledge-making in as many different regional and cultural contexts as possible. Other strategies include attempts to generalize the “Needham Question” of why the Scientific Revolution occurred only in early-modern Europe to the exclusion of other parts of the…
La Construction de L'empire de la Géographie L'odyssée des arpenteurs de Sa Très Gracieuse Majesté, la reine Victoria, en Asie centrale
The manners and sentiments of the easternnations will be perfectly known ; and the limitsof our knowledge no less extended than thebounds of our empire.Sir William Jones, A Grammar of the Persian LanguageYes, and thou must learn how to make picturesof roads and mountains and rivers - tocarry these pictures in thine eye till a suitabletime cornes to set them upon paper. Perhapssome day, when thou art a chain-man, I maysay to thee when we are worki…
Tradução por
Este ensaio traça a evolução paralela, mas não relacionada, de dois conjuntos de reações à história idealista tradicional da ciência em um contexto histórico-mundial. Apesar de os estudiosos que promoveram a abordagem pós-colonial terem favorecido uma visão idealista ao lidar com a ciência moderna não-ocidental, eles, no entanto, enfatizaram suas bases políticas e ideológicas e se envolveram com a questão de suas supostas raízes ocidentais. A his…
Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust
Régler les différends, gérer les différences
Créée de toutes pièces à partir de 1690 par la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales,Calcutta va se transformer en à peine un siècle en la deuxième ville de l'Empire britannique.Durant la même période,elle émerge aussi comme une des capitales mondiales des sciences.Zone de contact entre cultures européennes et asiatiques, Calcutta fournit un exemple de choix pour étudier à nouveaux frais la co-construction urbaine et savante: c'est le brassage …
Conexões, cruzamentos, circulações
Este artigo recupera o papel dos cartógrafos indianos na construção da ciência cartográfica britânica e a maneira como o saber-fazer local (ainda que em contexto colonial) se projectou na metrópole. Mostra-se, assim, como a ciência cartográfica na Índia antecipou em larga medida as realizações então em curso na Grã-Bretanha. À noção passiva de difusão, substituem-se as noções mais activas, de recepções, de representações e de apropriações histori…
Images of Knowledge, Social Organization, and Attitudes to Research in an Indian Physics Department
The ArgumentSociologists of Third World science, who share the dominant assumption in the philosophy of science that the "culture" of specific substantive fields of scientific inquiry is invariant across the globe, have, after a period of blind optimism devoted to building a critical mass of scientists in the developing countries, relapsed into a bleaker mood and see the Third World as a peripheral region lacking in "creativity" in its research p…
Chronique de la recherche
Chronique de la recherche
Images of Knowledge, Social Organization, and Attitudes to Research in an Indian Physics Department
The ArgumentSociologists of Third World science, who share the dominant assumption in the philosophy of science that the "culture" of specific substantive fields of scientific inquiry is invariant across the globe, have, after a period of blind optimism devoted to building a critical mass of scientists in the developing countries, relapsed into a bleaker mood and see the Third World as a peripheral region lacking in "creativity" in its research p…
The present in the past
La Construction de L'empire de la Géographie L'odyssée des arpenteurs de Sa Très Gracieuse Majesté, la reine Victoria, en Asie centrale
The manners and sentiments of the easternnations will be perfectly known ; and the limitsof our knowledge no less extended than thebounds of our empire.Sir William Jones, A Grammar of the Persian LanguageYes, and thou must learn how to make picturesof roads and mountains and rivers - tocarry these pictures in thine eye till a suitabletime cornes to set them upon paper. Perhapssome day, when thou art a chain-man, I maysay to thee when we are worki…
Th‐Century pacific voyages of discovery, “big science”, and the shaping of an European scientific and technological culture
The European exploration of the Pacific Ocean in the latter half of the eighteenth century is usually presented as part of the Enlightenment's quest for pure knowledge, knowledge which was shared freely in the “Republic of Letters”. In this essay, however, these expeditions are set against the background of a ferocious struggle between western European states to dominate the world, bringing together national political, commercial, military, and l…
Colonial Encounters and the Forging of New Knowledge and National Identities
In opposition both to the dominant vision of colonial science as an hegemonic European enterprise whose universalization can be conceived of in purely diffusionist terms, and to the more recent perception of it as a simple reordering of indigenous knowledge within the European canon, this essay seeks to show the complex reciprocity involved in the making of science within the colonial context. Based on the example of India during the first centur…
Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust
Geography and Enlightenment
1The École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris Geography and Enlightenment David N.LivingstoneCharles W. J.Withers University of Chicago PressChicago and London 1999viii + 455Paperback£16.00 0‐226‐48721‐0Hardback£33.00 0‐226‐48720‐2
Connexions, croisements, circulations
Jan af Geijerstam. Landscapes of technology transfer
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Conclusion
T his book began with the observation that modern science is widely considered to be a purely West European creation and then went on to present a brief account of academic conceptions and debates of its relationship to other societies and cultures. These have centred either on the epistemological, sociological, and economic uniqueness of the West, or else highlighted the mechanisms of its worldwide spread. Adducing historical evidence around spe…
When Human Travellers become Instruments
On a warm spring day in May 1863 two men, a South Asian and a European, are walking endlessly up and down a sinuous mountain path in the Himalayan heights somewhere to the east of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. A pilgrim’s staff in hand, the former leads the way, the latter closely follows meticulously counting and measuring his companion’s paces: yes, his two thousand steps do indeed make a mile. Suddenly they stop, light a small oil stove an…
Defusing Diffusionism
O n 14 May 1816 a group of more than fifty Hindus gathered at the house of Sir Edward Hyde East, chief justice in the Supreme Court of Calcutta, to discuss the foundation of a college in order to introduce into India ‘the literature and science of Europe’ in a liberal manner and without any reference to Christianity. 1 These men all came from Calcutta’s rising Hindu elite who, like the city in which they lived, owed their raison d’être and prospe…
British Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century, or Globalism versus Universalism
T he end of the eighteenth century is commonly considered crucial in the transition from the gentleman-amateur tradition based on private initiative in science in Britain (but also elsewhere in Europe) to one based on organized public instruction and research. This story is normally told as a purely European one, which then affected the rest of the world inasmuch as this newly institutionalized form of science was progressively deployed in the se…
Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust
The crowing of the cock awoke Sir William Jones, puisne (or junior) judge at the Supreme Court at Calcutta, on the morning of 2 February 1786, as indeed it had every morning since his arrival in India barely two and a half years earlier.1 Leaving his wife Anna Maria to her dreams, he rose silently from his bed and stepped out of his palatial garden house in the exclusive suburb of Garden Reach. Dawn had not quite broken as he walked up the road t…
Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftsmen
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the strategies employed by Europeans for gathering natural-historical, ethnographic, and geographical knowledge beyond the confines of the metropolis in the context of European expansion. Academic attention has focused in two main directions. One examines the specificity of these modes of 'field' inquiry in contrast to the more common focus in science studies on knowledge making in the control…
Circulation and the Emergence of Modern Mapping
It is commonly believed that modern cartography and the surveying activity on which it is based are a purely Western invention introduced into the rest of the world in the course of European colonial expansion. To take an example, in his book on the British geographical surveys of South Asia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Matthew Edney states that 'cartographic culture' is the transplanting from Europe to India by the British elites …
Conexões, cruzamentos, circulações
Este artigo recupera o papel dos cartógrafos indianos na construção da ciência cartográfica britânica e a maneira como o saber-fazer local (ainda que em contexto colonial) se projectou na metrópole. Mostra-se, assim, como a ciência cartográfica na Índia antecipou em larga medida as realizações então em curso na Grã-Bretanha. À noção passiva de difusão, substituem-se as noções mais activas, de recepções, de representações e de apropriações histori…
Relocating Modern Science
Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history
Régler les différends, gérer les différences
Créée de toutes pièces à partir de 1690 par la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales,Calcutta va se transformer en à peine un siècle en la deuxième ville de l'Empire britannique.Durant la même période,elle émerge aussi comme une des capitales mondiales des sciences.Zone de contact entre cultures européennes et asiatiques, Calcutta fournit un exemple de choix pour étudier à nouveaux frais la co-construction urbaine et savante: c'est le brassage …
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Les outils de la pensée
Les « textes » qui nous entourent et qui circulent dans notre société moderne - livres, journaux, tableaux, diagrammes, cartes, etc. - sont des outils importants qui nous aident à réaliser des opérations mentales et cognitives de traitement de l'information : communiquer, représenter, mémoriser, comparer, classifier, etc. Ces outils de la pensée, dont l'utilité nous paraît évidente, ont toutefois noué et nouent encore des relations complexes et v…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The historical anatomy of a contact zone
Founded in 1690 as an entrepôt by the English East India Company, Calcutta has been at the intersection of a number of heterogeneous long- and short-range networks of trade, finance, diplomacy, law, crafts and learning. This article explores the history of the first century of its existence during which it grew from insignificance to become the second most important city of the British Empire. During this period Calcutta also emerged as a world-c…
Beyond Postcolonialism ... and Postpositivism
This essay traces the parallel, but unrelated, evolution of two sets of reactions to traditional idealist history of science in a world-historical context. While the scholars who fostered the postcolonial approach, in dealing with modern science in the non-West, espoused an idealist vision, they nevertheless stressed its political and ideological underpinnings and engaged with the question of its putative Western roots. The postidealist history o…
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