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Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, Some Aspects of His Life and Work
Contributed articles on an Indian chemist.
Research Papers of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy
Works of a chemist and chemistry professor.
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and Indian Chemistry
Prafulla Chandra Ray, 1861-1944, chemist and scholar from West Bengal, India.
Science and National Consciousness in Bengal
This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal. His analysis of the careers of two scientists, J. C. Bose and P. C. Ray, and two institution builders, Mahendralal Sircar and Asutosh Mookerjee, brings to light the issues related to science at a time of colonialism and nationalism. Scientists often had to depend on British institutions for legitimation and funding, while also supporting the nationalist cause for greater autonomy. One of the central claims of this book is that the protagonists aimed to contribute to a modern world science, one based on a strong sense of universalism. They did not aim to construct any alternative sciences, though they did express and apply their work by drawing on their cultural heritage. This makes Science and National Consciousness a work of particular relevance today, when a homogenous, instrumentalist and totally Western conception of science is being globally accepted.
A Frank Friendship
"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi'S First Visit To Bengal Was On 4 July 1896 When He Disembarked In Calcutta While On A Visit From South Africa. Lord Elgin Was Viceroy And Governor General Of India. His Last Visit To Calcutta Commenced Shortly Before 15 August 1947, The Day India Became Free. Through This Meticulous Compilation Of Newspaper Reports, Letters, Excerpts From Contemporary Accounts And Gandhi'S Own Writings, And The Extensive Annotations That Bring To Light Many Known And Unknown Characters And Events Of The Time, As Well As Accounts Of Gandhi'S Interactions With The 'Greats' Of Bengal Such As Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das And The Impactful Bose Brothers That Reveal Tehir Extraordinary Personalities, We See A Man Continually Evolving As A Politician And A Strategist In The Struggle Against Colonialism, An Organizer Of Mass-Struggles And Of Individual Initiatives, Mainly His Own. Running Through The Text, As It Does Through Gandhi'S Thoughts, Prayers, Decisions And Extensive Travels, Is The Pulse Of The People Of Bengal, A People Whose Manifold Talents And Perspectives Set Them At The Heart Of Renascent India."
Citizen Refugee
Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.
Another Reason
Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation. Prakash ranges over two hundred years of Indian history, from the early days of British rule to the ...
Awakening
In the nineteenth century, Bengal witnessed an extraordinary intellectual flowering. Bengali prose emerged, and with it the novel and modern blank verse; old arguments about religion, society, and the lives of women were overturned; great schools and colleges were created; new ideas surfaced in science. And all these changes were led by a handful of remarkable men and women. For the first time comes a gripping narrative about the Bengal Renaissance recounted through the lives of all its players from Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore. Immaculately researched, told with colour, drama, and passion, Awakening is a stunning achievement.
Science and Empires
SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO buildi...
Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945
This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945.
