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Modern Indian studies have become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain conceptsâsuch as Ahimsa, Caste, Darshan, and Raceâhave taken on different meanings.
Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts out the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the ...
The book questions nationalist notions about development of atomic science in India and shows that the emergence of the country’s nuclear science infrastructure was in fact tenuous and contradictory and rich in faction fights that determined the direction of the development. Tracing the academic roots of India’s nuclear research to universities, industrial philanthropy, scientists and laboratories, it locates three different transitions in the ...