| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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David Arnold. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume 3, part 5, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 234. $59.95.

In writing this eminently readable book, David Arnold brings to this addition to the New Cambridge History of India the formidable expertise on famine, disease, tropical medicine, and environmental history already demonstrated in his earlier books on colonial India. Arnold begins with the laudable assumption that a history of science in India should also be a history of India. He goes on to describe Indian scientific traditions, colonial science, and the relationship between science and modernity in colonial India. He finds Indian science to be vigorous and outward looking in the centuries immediately preceding the colonial period and notes the continuous but selective absorption of technologies from Europe in various sectors of Indian economy and society during that period. Framed thus, the encounter between European science and its counterparts in India is not one of simple conquest and diffusion from West to East. In the same vein, Arnold argues that significant scientific discovery and invention occurred in the colonies. . . .

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