Introduction / Suvobrata Sarkar -- Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty / John Mathew -- Examining the foundations of science : an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries / Santanu Chacraverti -- Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak--a forgotten science propagator from Maharashtra / Abhidha Dhumatkar -- Cultural politics of engagement : Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala / Shiju Sam Varughese -- Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 / Y. Srinivasa Rao -- Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter : Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur in historical perspective / Suvobrata Sarkar -- Of geologists and water-diviners : the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth century India / Kapil Subramanian -- From battlefields to homes : oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India / Sarandha Jain -- Designing scientific mining : evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1930s / Sahara Ahmed -- On grazing lands and cultivated fodder / Himanshu Upadhyaya -- Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s-1960s / Nirmal Kumar Mahato -- Where man meets medicine : some reflections on The death of Ivan Ilyich and ?yurveda with its epistemological consequences / Jayanta Bhattacharya -- Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1910-1947 / B. Eswara Rao -- A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India : an invitation for its construction and rendition / Dhrub Kumar Singh -- Saviour sisters : services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India / Ch. Radha Gayathri.