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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195655281
• ISBN13: 9780195655285
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"