This book is a collection of essays focussed on the science and society interface especially in the context of colonization. It begins with discussing the strength and weaknesses in our inheritance, and gradually moves to what changes colonization had brought and how did our society grapple with. Divided into four parts and based on an extensive use of primary data, this book takes into account the contestations, adaptations, compromises and hybridity without ignoring the over-arching framework of colonialism. Closely linked to the power or success of the colonial or metropolitan knowledge is the status and relevance of the indigenous (non-Western) knowledge. Can the indigenous be viewed as historical and social reality or should they be understood only in a metaphysical sense? In fact, the indigenous has a historicity of its own, if we try to take both the text and the context together. The neo-Orientalists, now in ascendance, thanks to the power-shift, may not like it but their over-dependence on extended deductions and myth-making will never be able to erase historicity founded on diverse yet authentic sources.