Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to

Looking at both historical and contemporary contexts, the author argues that religion has played a major role in suppressing scientific pursuit.