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SUMMARY:Botany\, empire\, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-cent
 ury north India - Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College)
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CONTACT:David Allan Feller
DESCRIPTION:Dr Sujit Sivasundaram considers the question\, was there a dia
 logue between the British and colonized populations which involved the exc
 hange of scientific and religious tenets? Until recently historians held 
 that science and Christianity diffused from Europe to the rest of the worl
 d\, but the debate has now moved to an analysis of how much power European
 s wielded over the colonised with respect to knowledge. Examining the cas
 e of the Serampore missionaries in early nineteenth century Bengal\, Dr Si
 vasundaram argues that science and Christianity were intimately related 
 and localised. Dr Sivasundaram challenges the idea that the British were 
 able to colonise Indian minds with respect to religion and science\, or th
 at there was a dialogue of ideas between Indians and Britons with respect 
 to Christianity and science\, and rather suggests that the Serampore miss
 ionaries orchestrated a carefully planned and controlled form of dialogue 
 which offers new evidence of the exercise of power in dialogues of knowled
 ge.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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