CONTENTS: List of Illustrations, Introduction: A Life Acrolss Two Worlds by Dhruv Raina, 1. Engagement with Science and Technology for National Development in India: A Histolrical Perspective by Dinesh Abrol, 2. Peoples, Civilizations and Cognate Communities in the Historiography of Numbers and Symbolism: A Critical Approach by Karine Chemla, 3. Princes, Anachronism and the Anti-Democratic Impulse by Amar Farooqui, 4. Scholarly Pathways in the Ottomans' Pursuit of Learning by Fezqa Gunergun, 5. Open Science and its Enemies: Challenges for a Sustainable Science-Society Social Contract by Venni V Krishna, 6. Religion and Science: A Nolte on India's Civilizational Journey by Deepak Kumar, 7. A History olf Technological Contingencies: Anaerobic Digestion and the Evolution olf Research on Biogas Technology by Dhruv Raina and H N Chanakya, 8. History of Science and Global History: Portraits of a Fraught Relationship, 1900-2020s by Kapil Raj, 9. Domestication of Science in Kerala: Popular Century by Shiju Sam Varughese, 10. The Truly Global Aspirations of Global History by Benjamin Zachariah, Notes on Editor and Contributors, Index.