Images and Contexts

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Images and Contexts is written by Dhruv Raina and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199088292 (ISBN 10) and 9780199088294 (ISBN 13).

This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several strands from the corpus of writing over the past 150 years and places them within the context of their times. It analyses ideas about the interplay between centre and periphery, internal and external accounts of science, creative tension between scientism and romanticism, model of colonial science and its relationship with the emergence of national science, and the distortions of nationalist historiography.