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Brown Skins, White Coats is a groundbreaking study of race science in India during a crucial period of transformation. Projit Bihari Mukharji traces how Indian scientists, physicians, and intellectuals navigated the dominant racial theories of Western science while developing their own scientific frameworks between 1920 and 1966.
The book explores the paradoxes of scientific racism during colonialism and independence, revealing how Indian researchers both adopted and subverted racial categories in their pursuit of scientific legitimacy. Mukharji examines anthropometric studies, medical research, and scientific institutions to show how race science became entangled with questions of national identity, caste, and modernity in India.
Through archival research and careful analysis, this work challenges Western-centric histories of science and demonstrates the agency of Indian scientists in shaping their own scientific traditions.
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