Another Reason
Science and the Imagination of Modern India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23401679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gyan Prakash (0000-0002-1028-2764, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 344 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Another Reason (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780691214214 |
| OpenAlex | W4255793098 |
| Open Library | OL34116282M |
| ISBN | 9780691214214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 396 |
Looking back to look ahead
L’histoire des sciences, l’histoire intellectuelle et le monde, 1900-2020
Recipes for Immortality
The Liberal Arts and Management Education
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture
Language and the Making of Modern India
Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex
Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex
Conclusion
Introduction
Moral Science and the Management of “Sexual Revolution” in Russia
Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece
Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone.
Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Futures”
“Ordinary” Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives
Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia
Fugitive Knowledge. The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age
Building
Sexology’s Childhood
“The Quick, The Dead, And The Yet Unborn”
The Ballad of the Sad Café
Late Secularism
Procreation and Pleasure
The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery
Men in Paradise
Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
E is for Elephant
Patient Welfare vs. the Health of the Nation
The Great Quinine Fraud”
The Long Continuity
Patient labour and gendering cure
Faculté de prévoir. L’astrologie dans les universités indiennes
Ufundi and Tekinolojia in Independent Tanzania
Representing Nuclear
France and the Intersection and Challenges of Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa after the Second World War
Ouvrir le canon du savoir et reconnaître la différence
The Appropriated Body
The bridge and the photograph in Mozambique
Reckoning with subaltern science
Misrepresentation of Marginalized Groups
Engaging future Asia
From desired futures to market realities
Architecture of Coercion
Purging the pornographic, disciplining the sexual, and edifying the public
Colonial States, Colonial Rule, Colonial Governmentalities
Re-imagining Reproduction
Artefacts, displays and the imperial gaze
When useful knowledge is not ‘useful knowledge’
Science in the vernacular? Translation, terminology and lexicography in the Hindi Scientific Glossary (1906)
The science of the self ( ātmavidyā )
Class and the clinic
Bullock cart or satellite launch vehicle? Controversies over representing science and technology in India at the Science Museum in 1982
Rethinking geography's explanations of contemporary imperialism after the US occupation of Afghanistan
Education Abroad
Nation-Building and the Governance of Emerging Technologies
Diplomacy and the Design School
The ‘New’ Sociology of Empire and Colonialism
Science Journalism in Postcolonial India
Right to Pray
Commodities must be controlled’
Ultramodern contraception
The roar of the bomb’
Re-imagining the Indian state
If there is right food, there is no need for medicine
Law's Archive
Science as Routine
Unruly Modernity
Foucault's population geographies
Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development
A New “Special Relationship”
World History in the Atomic Age
The Indian Psychological Association, the Birth of the Modern Discipline and “The Destiny of One Nation”, 1905–1947
Atmospheric happening and weather reasoning
Science and Technology in India
Developing histories of Indian development
The university in modern South Asia
Quarantined histories
A Railway Carpenter in the History of Technology
Expanding the ‘dark side of planning
Are you pregnant? If not, why not?’
State, Identity, and Representations of Danger
The politics of penal excess and the echo of colonial penality
Thinking with Foucault Beyond Christianity and the Secular
Encountering Hindutva , interrogating religious nationalism and (En)gendering a Hindu patriarchy in India's nuclear policies
Engineering world society? Scientists, internationalism, and the advent of the Space Age
Museum History, Museum Theory
The museum’s redemption
Atomic comics
Placing the past
Swaraj ( circa 1885–1922)
Making Italians
Martial Races’ and ‘Imperial Subjects’
Turkey Psychoanalyzed, Psychoanalysis Turkified
Structures of Power
Vicissitudes of Vision
Science, patriotism, and Mother Veda
Settler governmentality in Canada and the Algonquins of Barriere Lake
Mobile Modernities
| Unique citing works | 396 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,23 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 394 |