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Dhruv Raina

Dhruv Raina “Knowledge on the Move: Circulation, Domestication and Transcultural Reonfigurations”, Heidelberg, 25-29 July 2010. Changing Questions: Revisiting the Dialogue between Jesuit Missionaries and Jai Singh‘s Astronomers. Sandra Harding, Multicultural Science.

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Dhruv Raina

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  1. Dhruv Raina “Knowledge on the Move: Circulation, Domestication and Transcultural Reonfigurations”, Heidelberg, 25-29 July 2010. Changing Questions: Revisiting the Dialogue between Jesuit Missionaries and Jai Singh‘s Astronomers

  2. Sandra Harding, Multicultural Science • Historiographic revolution at conjunction of three disciplinary movements: • Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science • Feminist philosophy of science • Post-colonial science studies

  3. One construction of postcolonial theory

  4. Filliozat, 1957 “The Indian astronomical systems were among the first scientific or even cultural achievements of India studied by Europeans”.

  5. Omont’s Catalogue, Listes des manuscrits envoyés de l’Inde par les Jésuites. (1729-1735) pp. 1179-1192; p. 1181 80-. Siddhianta-Manzar 81-. Zatak-arnava…….. 82-. Bhassuati………… 83-. Jiôti-pradipa 84-. Suddhi-dipika 85-. Krama-dipica 86-. Samaï-pradipa 87-. Sat-kritia-dipica

  6. Omont’s Catalogue, Listes des manuscrits envoyés de l’Inde par les Jésuites. (1729-1735) pp. 1179-1192; p. 1181 80-. Siddhianta-Manzar 81-. Zatak-arnava…….. 82-. Bhassuati………… 83-. Jiôti-pradipa 84-. Suddhi-dipika 85-. Krama-dipica 86-. Samaï-pradipa 87-. Sat-kritia-dipica

  7. van der Waerden, 1983, p.154. “I also suppose that their methods of calculation were copied, without proof…Jayadeva could learn the method of composition of solutions and of eliminating common factors of the `roots’ x and y, but the idea underlying the cyclic procedure, namely the periodicity of the Euclidean algorithm, got lost”.

  8. G.R.Kaye,Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh “...instead of his labours ending with his death when science expired on his funeral pyre, there might have been established a living school of research“.

  9. Sheldon Pollock (2000) “If we accept the construction of modernity that takes it to be… a different mode of structuring temporality, whereby the continuous present of tradition gives way to a world in which the past and the future are discrete phenomena, a modernity of a certain sort must be said to confront us in 17th century India”. (emphasis added).

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