Images and Contexts: The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India

摘要

Images and Contexts is a collection of previously published essays that certainly deserve a wider audience than most of them probably received in their original form. It is also worth noting that the essays hold together better than most collections of this sort. In all, Dhruv Raina weaves together two broad themes: the historiography of Indian science, in which he highlights interactions between Indian and foreign scientists; and the common ground between social constructivism and postcolonial theory, in which he highlights the ways in which both types of analysis emphasize a contextual approach to epistemology.