Introduction Suvobrata Sarkar Section I: Science and Society 1. Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty John Mathew 2. Examining the foundations of science: an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries Santanu Chacraverti 3. Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak - a forgotten science propagator from Maharashtra Abhidha Dhumatkar 4. Cultural politics of engagement: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala Shiju Sam Varughese Section II: Technology and Culture 5. Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 Y. Srinivasa Rao 6. Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter: Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur a historical perspective Suvobrata Sarkar 7.

Of geologists and water-diviners: the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth century India Kapil Subramanian 8. From battlefields to homes: oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India Sarandha Jain Section III: Environmental Issues 9. Designing scientific mining: evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1930s Sahara Ahmed 10. On grazing lands and cultivated fodder Himanshu Upadhyaya 11. Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s-1960s Nirmal Kumar Mahato Section IV: Medical Encounters 12. Where man meets medicine: some reflections on The Death of Ivan Ilyich and ayurveda with its epistemological consequences Jayanta Bhattacharya 13. Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1910-1947 B Eswara Rao 14.

A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India: an invitation for its construction and rendition Dhrub Kumar Singh 15. Saviour sisters: services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India Ch. Radha Gayathri.