| #2349297 in Books | Rutgers University Press | 2003-11-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.16 x.70 x6.36l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Tell them what they love to hear|By Film Wallah|It's well written - from an Indological and polemical perspective. However Ms Nanda does not know anything of traditional Indian knowledge. She has only studied various STEM disciplines. While she acknowledges a certain anxiety with the premisses of Enlightenment in post Colonial societies, she attributes all of it to a relatively||"Meera Nanda is a unique scholar. She combines valuable criticisms of postmodern science studies with a close reading of how these ideas influence actual political developments in India. An appealing and powerful read."|About the A
The leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies to develop their own “alternative sciences” as a step towards “mental decolonization”. These ideas have found a warm welcome among Hindu nationalists who came to power in India in the early 1990s. In...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India | Meera Nanda.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
