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Autore: | Nanda Meera |
Titolo: | Prophets facing backward : postmodern critiques of science and Hindu nationalism in India / / Meera Nanda |
Pubblicazione: | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina: | 509.54/09/04 |
Soggetto topico: | Science - India - History - 20th century |
Nationalism - India | |
Science - Philosophy - History - 20th century | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-298) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Prophets Facing Backward: Betrayal of the Clerks -- Chapter 2: Dharma and the Bomb: Reactionary Modernism in India -- Chapter 3: Vedic Science, Part One: Legitimation of the Hindu Nationalist Worldview -- Chapter 4: Vedic Science, Part Two: Philosophical Justi.cation of Vedic Science -- Chapter 5: Epistemic Charity: Equality of All "Ethnosciences" -- Chapter 6: We are All Hybrids Now!: Paths to Reactionary Modernism -- Chapter 7: A Dalit Defense of the Deweyan-Buddhist View of Science -- Chapter 8: The Battle for Scientific Temper in India's New Social Movements -- Chapter 9: The Ecofeminist Critique of the Green Revolution -- Chapter 10: The "Hindu Left," Agrarian Populism, and the Hindu Right -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Prophets Facing Forward -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Prophets facing backward |
ISBN: | 0-8135-7108-1 |
0-8135-3634-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826682903321 |
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