English Mud: Towards a Critical Cultural Studies of Colonial Science
Author(s)
Philip, Kavita
Abstract
Colonial science can be seen as a kind of culture when the interwoven strands of nation, scientific progress, gender, class and race are analyzed. The archival records of Ootacamund, a British hill station in southern India during the Raj period, show how concerns about disease, labor, progress, agriculture and tribes are connected. Colonial science was part of the larger structure that formed a global political economy and a scientific epistemology.
