Browsing by Subject "Colonial India"
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Illusions of Progress and Decline in Colonial India: Evolution and degeneration in the works of Pramatha Nath Bose, c. 1910-1930
(2024-05-11)In this thesis, I consider the views of Pramatha Nath Bose (1855-1934) as an example of Hindu revivalist appropriations of evolutionary ideas and degeneration to advance anticolonial, socially conservative politics in early ... -
Seismology in India: Colonial Geologists and the Raj, 1880-1910
(2018)At the end of the nineteenth century, seismologists were trying to create a ‘universal’ seismology that could be applied worldwide. Applying the observational European techniques in various places across the world challenged ...