Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATION -- TABLES -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: SCIENCE, COLONIALISM AND MODERNITY -- INDIA'A SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS -- COLONIAL SCIENCE -- SCIENCE AS MODERNITY -- CHAPTER 2 SCIENCE UNDER THE COMPANY -- THE COMPANY OF SCIENCE -- THE ORGANISATION OF COLONIAL SCIENCE -- SCIENCE AND ORIENTALISM -- THE TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY -- GEOLOGY -- BOTANY -- SCIENCE IN THE TROPICS -- CHAPTER 3 WESTERN MEDICINE IN AN INDIAN ENVIRONMENT -- THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE -- INDIAN PRACTITIONERS OF WESTERN MEDICINE -- ECOUNTERS WITH INDIAN MEDICINE -- SMALLPOX: FROM VARIOLATION TO VACCINATION -- MALARIA AND MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY -- CHOLERA: ENVIROMENT, ARMY AND PUBLIC HEALTH -- WOMEN, MISSIONS AND MEDICINE -- CHAPTER 4 TECHNOLOGIES OF THE STEAM AGE -- TEXTILES, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITION -- MINES AND METALLURGY -- SHIPBUILDING AND STEAMSHIPS -- ROADS, RAILWAYS AND THE POWER OF STEAM -- TELEGRAPHS -- IRRIGATION -- TECHNOLOGY, IDEOLOGY AND RESISTANCE -- STEAM, SWADEDHI AND SWARAJ -- CHAPTER 5 IMPERIAL SCIENCE AND THE INDIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY -- SCIENCE AND THE SERVICES -- IMPERIAL SCIENCE -- MEDICAL SCIENCE -- FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE -- AN INDIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY -- CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND PLANT PHYSIOLOGY -- CHAPTER 6 SCIENCE, STATE AND NATION -- THE RETURN OF HINDU SCIENCE -- THE REVIVAL OF INDIGENOUS MEDICINE -- SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE -- INSTITUTIONAL SCIENCE -- TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH -- SCIENCE FOR THE NATION -- CONCLUSION -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- 1. General -- 2. Science under the Company -- 3. Colonial Medicine -- 4. Technology -- 5. Science and Empire -- 6. Hindu Science -- 7. Science, State and Nation -- INDEX.