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SUMMARY:Translating Science in Colonial North India\, c.1890-1950 - Charu 
 Singh\, Adrian Research Fellow\, Darwin College
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CONTACT:Dr Arthur Dudney
DESCRIPTION:How did western scientific knowledge travel and translate acro
 ss languages and imperial geographies in the late-nineteenth and early-twe
 ntieth centuries? Are some languages inherently more able vehicles of scie
 ntific ideas than others\, and therefore\, more modern? Does the universal
 ization of western science and the spread of English as the global languag
 e of science have a history?\n\nIn my talk\, I examine these questions in 
 the context of the translation of western science into one regional langua
 ge (Hindi) in colonial South Asia. At the turn of the twentieth century\, 
 Hindi intellectuals perceived a lack of scientific ideas within their lang
 uage. They aimed to fulfil this absence by translating\, writing and publi
 shing on scientific subjects in Hindi. This took the form of bringing out 
 a science monthly dedicated to communicating ideas to an emerging reading 
 public\; writing textbooks for use in schools\; and the coining of new wor
 ds as equivalents for western scientific terms to aid translation.\n\nWhil
 e imperial science was often produced in the name of colonial publics\, ho
 w was scientific knowledge communicated to Indian audiences? If the produc
 tion of scientific knowledge has been generally studied within the scienti
 fic surveys\, departments and institutions of the British Indian state\, I
  will raise the problem of the reception and reinterpretation of knowledge
  in the Hindi public sphere. I will underline the significance of language
  and translation in the global circulations and gradual universalization o
 f western scientific discourse.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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