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The Quest for Technical Knowledge: Bengal in the Nineteenth Century
by Suvobrata Sarkar (Author),
Manohar Publishers (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
Immense intellectual and cultural stirringscharacterisednineteenth-century
Bengal. The impact of modernWestern culture andconsciousness of defeat by a
foreign power gavebirth to a newawakening. Thoughtful Bengalis were impressed
inparticular bymodern science and technology. The attainment ofmodern
scientificknowledge in colonial Bengal was not purely aquestion ofdiffusion.
Western science and technology, viewed asculturalimport, were actively redefined
by the recipient culture.Adifferent society, culture, tradition and
existingindigenousknowledge systems provided the background in which
thegradualspread of the new knowledge occurred, followed by itsadaptationthrough
various reformulations. One of the major sourcesofdissemination of
techno-scientific knowledge to the nativesocietywas the contemporary Bengali
journals. This book is anaccount ofthe Bengali bhadralok's distinctive response
to themoderntechnical knowledge as reflected in the pages of
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9788173049491
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Manohar Publishers
Publishing Date 2012-07-01
Total Pages 244