discuss the complex negotiatio
Discuss the complex negotiation that Western Science had to undertake in order to establish itself in colonial IndiaThe Beginning of Science¡¦s cultural authority in India lies in the ¡¥civilising mission,¡¦ introduced by the British in the early nineteenth century. The East India Company asserted its territorial control by establishing themselves as a body of traders. They brought about a new rule forming a new language of knowledge contrary to the Orientalists and classicalists known throughout India. The East India Company set about establishing a system of Western education designed to train Indians to serve as subordinate functionaries in the colonial bureaucracy. The emerging of Western Science in Colonial India is an important yet complex subject. With the practises of Science, the British constituted India as a laboratory for modernity. However the signature of modernity was to ultimately lie in India¡¦s hands. Throughout this topic we must keep one point in mind, India shaped Britain as much as Britain shaped India: the interaction was historical reality. After the Mutiny of 1857 the pace of change speeded and became more extensive. The British learnt that they could not appease the Indians and the
Although there was a ¡¥popularity¡¦ of such exhibitions, Museums and exhibitions faced a problem. They needed the objects to reveal something more abstract and universal. They needed the objects of native provenance to strike the viewer as science. „« Gyan Prakash ¡§Another reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern agency¡¨ Historians were not oblivious to the fact that the subalterns needed scientific knowledge. The educated elite knew that if the subalterns were to acquire such knowledge then they would leave behind their superstions. Alsha Yulkon points out, ¡¥ in our country people are living in darkness. The unfortunate souls believe that fate determines the poor productivity of their soil. They do not realise that their miserable condition is due to their own ignorance. The same land could grow a hundred times more if scientific methods were employed.¡¦
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George Campbell,
Alien Science¡¦,
Alsha Yulkon,
Hindus Christianity,
Theodor Adorno,
India Indians,
Enabled Indians,
Bramho Samaj,
Omkar Bhatt,
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colonial india,
lower classes,
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