Science and Society in Modern India

Deepak Kumar is Honorary Professor, Department of History, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. He has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, has held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, London, Leiden, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. and has also taught at Wisconsin University, Madison, USA, and York University in Toronto, Canada. He has recently published Aatam Khabar: Sanskriti, Samaj aur Hum (Aakar Books, 2022) and 'Culture' of Science and the Making of India (Primus, 2022). For more than four decades, he has tried to popularize History of Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine (HISTEM). He has also authored Science and the Raj, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2006) and The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self and Society in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Dedication; Preface; 1. The Inheritance; 2. The Age of Exploration and Consolidation; 3. Lost in Religion and Translation; 4. A New Dawn; 5. Medical Knowledge and Public Health; 6. Science for Development; 7. Bibliographical Note; Index.