Author: Eminent Contributors
Editor: Sushil Kumar Mukherjee
Publisher: Thema
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 235
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186017194
Description
This collection of essays and addresses-most of them quite inaccessible now, and some of them translated for the first time into English - offers a rare insight into the social concern that the first generation of modern Indian scientists brought to their commitment to science. Even as they sought in the dissemination of the scientific temper the enlightenment of the Indian mind cramped under superstition and obscurantism, their emphasis was on innovation, improvisation, and creativity.
The Indian science project, as they conceived it, would be one that could stand on its own, devising its own machinery, and asserting its independence. The six scientists and their modern commentators provide a rich set of readings opening up a fresh view of a project that has been distorted and diluted over the years.
Contents
Introduction
SUSHIL, KUMAR MUKHERJEE
P C Ray
DEBIPRASAD CHATTOPADHYAY
Knowledge of Technical Arts
And Decline of Scientific spirit
R C Ray
Then and Now
P C ray
C V Raman
VIRENDRA SINGH
The Scientific Outlook
CV Raman
The IIT Convocation address
C V Raman
Mahalanobis And the Concept
Of Statistics as a Key Technology
B P ADHIKARI
Statistical Methods in National Development
P C MAHALANOBIS
Modern Science and Hindu Religion:
A Dialogue between M N Saha and
Anilbaran Roy
SANTIMAY CHATTERJEE
A New Philosophy of Life
M N Saha
Rejoinder
ANILBARAN ROY
Rejoinder to the Rejoinder: 1
M N SHAHA
Rejoinder to the Rejoinder: 2
M N SHAHA
Rejoinder to the Rejoinder: 3
M N SHAHA
Rejoinder to the Rejoinder: 4
M N Shaha
Rejoinder
MOHINIMOHAN DATA
Conclusion
M N SAHA
S N BOSE
PARTHA GHOSE
Incidentally
S N BOSE
The Scientist’s Plea
S N BOSE
Education and Science
S N BOSE
H J BHABHA
VIRENDRA SINGH
Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
H J BHABHA
The Role of Science and Technology
In Producing an Integrated World
H J BHABHA
The Role of Atomic Energy in Asia
H J BHABHA
The Role of Atomic Energy in Asia
H J BHASHA
Science and the Problems of Development
H J BHABHA