Introduction
Associations for Political Stability and Social Progress
Anglo-Indian and British Social Science Ideology
Bengal Anglo-Indian Social Purpose Associations and Research
Activity
Bombay and Punjab Social Purpose Associations
Science Research for a Modern Imperial State and Capitalist
Enterprise
Anglo-Indian Perspectives on Science
Government and Science Associations
Indian Botanic Gardens
Agricultural Experimentation by Association and Government
British Associations and Indian Science and Agriculture
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
This study examines the intellectually vital period in Indian history between 1780 and 1880 when Anglo-Indian social purpose and scientific organizations emerged in an effort to promote progress through social reform and scientific advancement.
EDWARD W. ELLSWORTH is Professor of History at Wheelock College. He is the author of Liberators of the Female Mind: The Sherreff Sisters, Educational Reform and the Women's Movement (Greenwood Press, 1979), and numerous articles in journals such as the New England Quarterly Historian, the Lincoln Herald, and the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
?Ellsworth's book investigates formal and informal social science-
and science-oriented associations in India from 1780 to 1880. These
organizations devoted themselves to gathering and analyzing
information. They made suggestions to government and initiated
their own programs in attempts to ensure continued British control
of India and to introduce to India modern (i.e., Western)
scientific concerns and methods. Ellsworth discusses the
connections between developing scientific concerns in Britain and
their transmittal to the Indian context. For instance, he explains
how scientific agrarian organizations tried to stimulate selected
areas of the Indian economy. He also explains how mixed racial
social-purpose organizations provided forums for British and a few
Indian members to document community needs and problems. Much of
the material supports a premise that the social and economic
concerns of these organizations were predicated on the need for
Britain to improve India's social conditions and economic life in
order to benefit the metropolitan center. The book covers
associations within regions of India and details the concerns and
contributions of individuals (primarily British) within each of the
associations and regions. However, there is little analysis of
connections and contributions, making the book read much like a
catalog. For graduate and research libraries.?-Choice
"Ellsworth's book investigates formal and informal social science-
and science-oriented associations in India from 1780 to 1880. These
organizations devoted themselves to gathering and analyzing
information. They made suggestions to government and initiated
their own programs in attempts to ensure continued British control
of India and to introduce to India modern (i.e., Western)
scientific concerns and methods. Ellsworth discusses the
connections between developing scientific concerns in Britain and
their transmittal to the Indian context. For instance, he explains
how scientific agrarian organizations tried to stimulate selected
areas of the Indian economy. He also explains how mixed racial
social-purpose organizations provided forums for British and a few
Indian members to document community needs and problems. Much of
the material supports a premise that the social and economic
concerns of these organizations were predicated on the need for
Britain to improve India's social conditions and economic life in
order to benefit the metropolitan center. The book covers
associations within regions of India and details the concerns and
contributions of individuals (primarily British) within each of the
associations and regions. However, there is little analysis of
connections and contributions, making the book read much like a
catalog. For graduate and research libraries."-Choice
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