Dhruv Raina
Professor
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
Dhruv Raina is Professor in Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Research Interest
History and Philosophy of Science; Science, technology and development policy; Studies on science and social movements in India. Research programmes on the institutionalisation of the modern scientific and technological research system in late nineteenth and twentieth century India. Studies on the social epistemology of models and theories of the history of sciences: the historiography of sciences. Historiography of mathematical proof. Ongoing research programmes on the cultural reception of modern science and the dialogue with other knowledge systems. Scientometric studies on the institutionalisation of physics research in India. Preparation of archives and databases for the hisory of sciences and technology in India. Social history of knowledge and higher education in Modern India
