[citation needed] Auguste Comte proposed that there should be a specific discipline to deal with the history of science.
[3] The development of the distinct academic discipline of the history of science and technology did not occur until the early 20th century.
[citation needed] In the decades since the end of World War II, history of science became an academic discipline, with graduate schools, research institutes, public and private patronage, peer-reviewed journals, and professional societies.
[citation needed] He shared with many of his contemporaries a Whiggish belief in history as a record of the advances and delays in the march of progress.
The second generation mainly consists of Ashis Nandy, Deepak Kumar, Dhruv Raina, S. Irfan Habib, Shiv Visvanathan, Gyan Prakash, Stan Lourdswamy, V.V.
Krishna, Itty Abraham, Richard Grove, Kavita Philip, Mira Nanda and Rob Anderson.