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.

The book offers convincing evidence to incorporate the Catholic world of early modernity into the history of modern science. The research is supported by the an

The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decoloniz