1st Edition

Science and the Indian Tradition When Einstein Met Tagore

By David L. Gosling Copyright 2007
200 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Science in India’s Intellectual Renaissance  3. Tradition Redefined  4. Worldviews in Encounter  5. Relativity and Beyond  6. Indian Science Comes of Age  7. An Investigation into the Beliefs of Indian Scientists  8. How Clear Reason’s Stream?  9. Looking to the Future.  Appendix A: The Nature of Reality.  Appendix B: Investigation Questionnaire

Biography

Dr David L. Gosling is the principal of Edwardes College, Peshawar University, Pakistan, and also teaches ecology in the University of Cambridge, where he was the first Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall. He has been the Director of Church and Society of the World Council of Churches, and is the author of Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia.

"... splendid new book. It is very exciting and contains much more than the exchange between Einstein and Tagore....It really is a very great achievement". John Bowker, Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Cambridge.