The paper focuses on the various issues/models relating to nature of diffusion of scientific ideas and practices during the colonial period. In the process, Basalla’s three phase model, the character of transmission and absorption of scientific knowledge in the period from center to non-European peripheries, and opinion of different scholars on them are critically examined. Efforts are also made to articulate a new perspective on how local issues developed within certain colonial condition often convincingly contributed to the actual creation of the western science and or medicine.

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英属印度的殖民地科学和医学史：中心-外围视角

本文着重探讨与殖民时期科学思想和实践传播的性质有关的各种问题/模型。在此过程中，对巴沙拉的三个阶段的模型，从中心到非欧洲外围的科学知识的传播和吸收的特征以及不同学者对它们的看法进行了严格的研究。还努力阐明一种新的观点，即在某些殖民地条件下发展起来的局部问题通常令人信服地对西方科学和医学的实际创造做出了贡献。