This panel will take a fresh look at the theme of Science and Colonialism with an attempt at understanding the complex intertwinement between science and the economic and adminisitrative purposes of colonialism. Science and imperialism have been debated widely in recent years, and historians have highlighted the various eclectic and innovative processes that shaped scientific ideas and research in the colonies. This panel will investigate the various ideological and intellectual premises that defined science’s role in the colonial development projects and the role science played in establishing colonial governance in sectors like agriculture, veterinary medicine, purification of water and in the general ideas of colonial development in Asia and Africa.