Chapter 10
* This chapter reflects my research towards a doctoral degree from the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). This chapter was originally published as ‘Scientific Experiments in British India: Scientists, Indigo Planters and the State, 1890–1930’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 38 (3), 2001, pp. 249–70. Reproduced here with permission of the publishers, Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
1. Carl Esek Pray's study of agricultural research in India measured the ‘productivity’ of laboratory experiments through an economic cost-benefit calculation. Pray utilized economic tools to work out the return on investments made on experiments in the laboratories controlled ...
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