TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nandy, Ashis
TI  - Alternative Sciences: : creativity and authenticity in two Indian scientists
SN  - 9780195655285
U1  - 509.54 NAN 23
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - : Oxford University Press
KW  - Biography
KW  - Scientists, Science, India
KW  - Science and Civilization
N2  - 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
ER  -