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South Asian cultural studies evolved
through cultural studies of science.
During the 1970s, such major works
as Jit Singh Uberoi's Science and
Culture (1978), Claude Alvares'
Homo Faber: Technology and
Culture in India, China and the
West (1979) and Ashis Nandy's
Alternative Sciences (1980) laid
the foundation for a sustained critique
of modernity and the pathology of
rationality in Western science. By the
early 1980s new work from the Bombay-
based Patriotic People's Science and Technology
Group and from writers like Deepak Kumar, Shiv
Visvanathan and Veena Das had ensured that radical
scholarship in India was "guided by the belief that all
knowledge is political intervention".
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