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020			_a9780195655285
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100			_aNandy, Ashis
245		0	_aAlternative Sciences _b: creativity and authenticity in two Indian scientists _c/ Ashis Nandy
250			_a2nd Edition (Oxford India Paperbacks)
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2001
300			_a176 p.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aBiography
650			_aScientists, Science, India
650			_aScience and Civilization
942			_cRBK
999			_c68623 _d68623