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Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910)

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Science and Empires

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Abstract

The three jewels in the imperial crown, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, had acquired universities by the 1870s1. By 1887, Punjab and Allahabad had also acquired university status. In the Native Indian States the project of modernization had to be undertaken, not through imperial structures in alliance with local elites, but at the initiative of the native elites and ruling classes themselves. The process was in turn catalyzed, among other factors, by the demand for an emerging class of literates and professionals. Thus it is of interest to investigate the founding of a technical institute in the Native State of Baroda in 1890. This interest does not merely rest in commemorating the centenary of the event as institutional history, but in identifying one more modality for the introduction of modern sciences to 19th century India.

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Raina, D., Habib, S.I. (1992). Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910). In: Petitjean, P., Jami, C., Moulin, A.M. (eds) Science and Empires. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 136. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2594-9_14

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