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This work is a biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists, J.C. Bose, the plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest untrained mathematical geniuses the world has ever known. Nandy discusses the extent to which the colonial context within which these two men worked impinged on the calibre and nature of their research.

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"Each section is well written and fairly informative. Therefore we find that the book is something more than a book on the cultural psychology of scientific creativity."--xxxx

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A biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists - J.C. Bose, a plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, an untrained mathematical genius - which explores to what extent the colonial context under which these men worked influenced the calibre and nature of their research.

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ISBN 10:  0195655281 ISBN 13:  9780195655285
Publisher: OUP India, 2002
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