Dr. Rajive Tiwari

Publications

• “Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia” in Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800–1970, Edited By Brett Bennett and Joseph Hodge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
•  Dictionary of Physics (in Hindi), National Publishing House, Delhi 2006
•  “A Transnarrative for the Colony: Astronomy Education and Religion in 19th Century India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLI, No 13, April 1 -7, 2006
•  “Carrying the Magic Lantern: Fr. Lafont and Scientific Autonomy in Colonial India”, Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, Winter, 2004
•  “Phase Diagram of 3He–4He Mixture Films”, with W. I. Glaberson Physical Review B, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1990
•  “Apples But Also Oranges” in the Belmont Abbey College magazine, Crossroads, Fall/Winter 2007
•  Editorial Assistant – “How Do You Say It In English: A Hindi-English Dictionary of Idioms and Proverbs”, New Delhi, 1997

Conference Presentations

• “Faithful Translations: Religion and the Encounter with Western Science in Colonial India”, International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society, 4-6 July, 2019, University of Birmingham, UK
• “Through the Looking Glass of Print Media: Popular Reflections on Science, Nationalism and Religion in 19th-Century India” at “Science in Public: Past, Present and Future” conference held at University of Kent, Canterbury, 13-15 July 2016
• “Science, modernity and religion in colonial India”, Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 22-24 April 2015
•  “Popular Perceptions of Western Science in Nineteenth-Century India”, Intellectual Hinterlands Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, University of Toronto, June 25-27, 2014
•  “Meaning of Science and the Social Context: Case of 19th Century India” AAPT Summer Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 16, 2013
•  “Meaning of Science and the Social Context: The Case of Nineteenth-Century India”, NCS-AAPT, UNC Asheville, November 2011
•  “Western Science in Late 19th-Early 20th Century Hindi-Language Print Media”, at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, 2009
•  “Western Science in Late 19th-Early 20th Century Hindi-Language Print Media”, at the 3 Societies Meeting, Oxford University, UK, July 2008
•  “Astronomy education and religion in colonial India” at the joint conference of History of Science Society, Philosophy of Science Society and Society for Social Studies of Science, November 1 – 5, 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada
•  “Science, Religion and Nation in 19th Century Hindi Magazines”, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development, New Delhi, India; July 2008.
•  “Physics Education, Religion and Colonialism in 19th Century India” at the Fall meeting of NCS-AAPT at Elon University; September 29-30, 2006
• “Repainting the Heavens: Astronomy Education and Religion in Colonial India”, 22nd International Congress of History of Science at Beijing, China, July 2005
• “Eugene Lafont: An Early Physics Educator in Colonial India”, Summer 2004 meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers at California State University, Sacramento.
• “Fr. Eugene Lafont: A Pioneer of Physics Education in Colonial India”, Fall 2003 meeting of NCS-AAPT in Wilmington, NC
• “Making of a Physics Dictionary in Hindi”, Fall 2002 meeting of NCS-AAPT at UNC-Asheville
• Presented a workshop on Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon for faculty at Belmont Abbey College under the Great Books program
• Formal and informal talks for faculty and students on topics ranging from physics of skydiving to development of English language in India