Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India

ISBN: 9781139575201 出版年：2012 页码：356 Prakash Kumar Cambridge University Press

Introduction: the odyssey of indigo 1. The world of indigo plantations: diasporas and knowledge 2. The course of colonial modernity: negotiating the landscape in Bengal 3. Colony and the external arena: seeking validation in the market 4. Local science: agricultural institutions in the age of nationalism 5. The last stand in science and rationalization 6. A lasting definition of improvement in the era of world war.