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Mathematical Practices in Early Modern India
While the origin of technological and mechanical knowledge in important societal practices appears obvious, it is less so in the case of mathematics.
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The project, launched by the French Institute of Pondicherry, the ETH Zurich, and the MPIWG, aims at a social history of mathematical practices situat
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An important aspect of the project is the identification and preservation of the huge corpus of relevant extant vernacular sources spread all over Ind
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The Vernacular Sciences in Southwest India
MoreRewriting the World in Southwest India
This project traces the emergence of a new way of writing natural history in Kannada in the late eleventh century and the contemporaneous production o
Artisan Knowledge and Musical Instrument Making in South India
How do craftspeople know what they know? How is acoustic knowledge embodied in skills and labor? How do instrument makers relate to musicians as instr
Imperial Insects: Entomology and Empire in British India
Insects, whether as materials or metaphors, were significant rather than incidental to the makings of British imperial politics and culture. On the ot
Making Useful Knowledge: British Naturalists in Colonial India, 1784–1820
This project explores the natural knowledge-making strategies of British colonial savants in early modern India including the noted oriental
An Ethnography of NGO Practice in India: Utopias of Development
Through an ethnographic study of the "Barefoot College," an internationally renowned non- governmental development organization (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organization materializes and manages a construction of success.
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Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
The visual documentation of famine in nineteenth-century India provides a frame for understanding how modalities of classification, institutional prac
Ancients and Moderns: A Cultural History of Modern Science in India (1600–2000)
India’s encounter with modern science began in 1615 when an envoy of the East India Company presented a telescope to the Mughal emperor, Jahangir. The