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Postcolonial Science on Display: Science, Technology, and Nation State in Indian Science Museums

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Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 05:30pm, ET

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Let us have done with the past and its bickering and face the future. To the British we must be grateful for one splendid gift of which they were the bearers, the gift of science and its rich offspring.
Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography (p.436)

…science must think in terms of 400 million persons in India: Jawaharlal Nehru
(quoted in Parthasarathi and Singh, 1992:1854)

Speaker: Rose Sebastian, Bajaj Family Fellow, Mittal Institute

Moderator: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Rose Sebastian’s postdoctoral project proposes to analyze the national science museums in independent India as sites of display and dissemination of a distinctively postcolonial policy and culture of science. This interdisciplinary project aspires to bring together the analytical approaches of Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). It extends the concepts of postcolonial hybridity and ambivalence to cultures of science, and analyzes the co-production of the technoscientific and the political in postcolonial India from an STS framework.