The Making Of Modern Physics In Colonial India

Author : Somaditya Banerjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317024699
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India written by Somaditya Banerjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956). The analytical category "bhadralok physics" is introduced to explore how it became possible for a highly successful brand of modern science to develop in a country that was still under colonial domination. The term Bhadralok refers to the then emerging group of native intelligentsia, who were identified by academic pursuits and manners. Exploring the forms of life of this social group allows a better understanding of the specific character of Indian modernity that, as exemplified by the work of bhadralok physicists, combined modern science with indigenous knowledge in an original program of scientific research. The three scientists achieved the most significant scientific successes in the new revolutionary field of quantum physics, with such internationally recognized accomplishments as the Saha ionization equation (1921), the famous Bose-Einstein statistics (1924), and the Raman Effect (1928), the latter discovery having led to the first ever Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist from Asia. This book analyzes the responses by Indian scientists to the radical concept of the light quantum, and their further development of this approach outside the purview of European authorities. The outlook of bhadralok physicists is characterized here as "cosmopolitan nationalism," which allows us to analyze how the group pursued modern science in conjunction with, and as an instrument of Indian national liberation.

Author : Renny Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000534316
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Religion in India written by Renny Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’ religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and ‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.

Author : Felicity Rash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429821026
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of British and German Colonialism written by Felicity Rash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project from as early as the sixteenth century but especially after the foundation of the German Second Empire in 1871 – the era of the so-called 'Scramble for Africa'. The authors present the points of view not only of the colonizing nations, but also of former colonies, including Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Namibia, Tanzania, India, China, and the Pacific Islands. The title will prove invaluable for students and researchers working on British colonial history, German colonial history and post-colonial studies.

Author : Raphaël Cheriau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000383016
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions written by Raphaël Cheriau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly embodied by the iconic meeting of Dr. Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in 1871. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests. It brings the repression of the East African slave trade at sea and the expansion of empires into a new light in comparing French and British archives for the first time.

Author : Ashish Avikunthak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316512398
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Archaeology written by Ashish Avikunthak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of archaeological practice in postcolonial India that reveals the bureaucratic culture in the making of knowledge about past.

Author : Raymond A. Serway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788131503447
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Physics written by Raymond A. Serway and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Asoke Nath Mitra
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131715796
Total Pages : 662 pages
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Download or read book India in the World of Physics written by Asoke Nath Mitra and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Author : Randy Harris
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ISBN 13 : 9789332570962
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Physics written by Randy Harris and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. R. YADAV
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 8120348583
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MODERN PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS written by R. R. YADAV and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers provides thorough understanding of concepts and principles of Modern Physics with their applications. The various concepts of Modern Physics are arranged logically and explained in simple reader friendly language. For proper understanding of the subject, a large number of problems with their step-by-step solutions are provided for every concept. University problems have been included in all chapters. A set of theoretical, numerical and multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter will help readers to understand the subject. This textbook covers broad variety of topics of interest in Modern Physics: The Special Theory of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics (Dual Nature of Particle as well as Schrödinger’s Equations with Applications), Atomic Physics, Molecular Physics, Nuclear Physics, Solid State Physics, Superconductivity, X-Rays, Lasers, Optical Fibres, and Motion of Charged Particle in Electromagnetic Fields. The book is designed as a textbook for the undergraduate students of science and engineering.

Author : Kiruthiga Sivaprasath
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788121928014
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Physics written by Kiruthiga Sivaprasath and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present Multicolor edition has been throughly revised and update taking into account the recent syllabi of various Indian Universities.Multicolor pictures have been added to enhance the content value and to give the students an idea of what he will be dealing in reality,and to bridge the gap between theory and practice.