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The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India (Paperback)
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The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India (Paperback)
Series: Empires in Perspective
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This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of
physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century,
focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974),
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha
(1893-1956). The analytical category "bhadralok physics" is
introduced to explore how it became possible for a highly
successful brand of modern science to develop in a country that was
still under colonial domination. The term Bhadralok refers to the
then emerging group of native intelligentsia, who were identified
by academic pursuits and manners. Exploring the forms of life of
this social group allows a better understanding of the specific
character of Indian modernity that, as exemplified by the work of
bhadralok physicists, combined modern science with indigenous
knowledge in an original program of scientific research. The three
scientists achieved the most significant scientific successes in
the new revolutionary field of quantum physics, with such
internationally recognized accomplishments as the Saha ionization
equation (1921), the famous Bose-Einstein statistics (1924), and
the Raman Effect (1928), the latter discovery having led to the
first ever Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist from Asia. This book
analyzes the responses by Indian scientists to the radical concept
of the light quantum, and their further development of this
approach outside the purview of European authorities. The outlook
of bhadralok physicists is characterized here as "cosmopolitan
nationalism," which allows us to analyze how the group pursued
modern science in conjunction with, and as an instrument of Indian
national liberation.
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