Alternative Sciences: Creativity and Authenticity in Two Indian Scientists

by Ashis Nandy

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.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

168 pages, Hardcover

First published July 20, 1995

Reviews

[Mahender Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice and quite detail presentation of lives and times of two Indian men of science , Professor Jagdeesh Chandra Basu and Mathematician Shrinivas Ramanujan.