Screen LibraryHistory of Indigenous pharmaceutical companies in colonial Calcutta (1855-1947) /
In the context of life and civilization, the pharmaceutical industry is as old as human existence. Since time immemorial India had its own enriched indigenous tradition of medicine. The development of alchemy and its application for human welfare was also an important step in Indian scientific tradi...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
In the context of life and civilization, the pharmaceutical industry is as old as human existence. Since time immemorial India had its own enriched indigenous tradition of medicine. The development of alchemy and its application for human welfare was also an important step in Indian scientific tradition. The present monograph is an innovative attempt to understand the history of the indigenous pharmaceutical companies in Calcutta during the colonial times. Here pharmaceutical companies have been viewed as an illumiƯnating lens to understand the interconnectedness between Indian traditions of thought and Western science and subsequent developƯment of pharmaceutical industry in colonial India. The entire gamut of discussion centres around the issues of medical education, medical services, public health, pharmaceutiƯcal profession and politico-economic contexts of the development of pharmaceutical industry in colonial India. Three indigenous pharmaceuticals namely ? Butto Krishna Paul & Co., Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works Limited, and East India Pharmaceutical Works Limited have been studied. The study not only portrays the politico-economic backƯground to the emergence of the pharmaceutical industry in colonial India but links it to the economic nationalism and the quest for self-sufficiency among Indian nationalists and entrepreneurs. The pharmaceutical industry in India can be symbolic of a cultural reƯsponse to modern science which was to pave the subsequent trajectory of national scientific endeavours in India. |
| Carrier Form: | 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-268) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780367699628 0367699621 |
| Index Number: | HD9672 |
| CLC: | F435.167-09 |
| Call Number: | F435.167-09/B327 |