Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India (NPSAH Book 6) by Kavita Philip

Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India (NPSAH Book 6)

Kavita Philip

305 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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Science, both as a scholarly discipline and as a concept in the popular imagination, was critical to building hegemony in the British Empire. It also inspired alternative ideas of progress by elites and the disenfranchised: these competing spectre...

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