Alternative Sciences: Creativity and Authenticity in Two Indian Scientists - Softcover

Nandy, Ashis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195655281 ISBN 13: 9780195655285

Publisher: OUP India, 2002

Synopsis

This book 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 men worked, impinged on the calibre and nature of their work.

About this title

About the Author

Ashis Nandy, psychologist and social theorist, is an influential writer and thinker on post-colonial futures, cultural alternatives, and the politics of knowledge. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. His most recent work is An Ambigious Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination (OUP, 2001).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195655281
• ISBN 13: 9780195655285
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 166