Meghnad Saha: Work, life, and times

Calcutta-based Meghnad Saha (1893-1955) set out his theory to explain stellar spectra in a number of papers published in British journals  during 1920-1921. The work was immediately recognized as laying…

Surveyors General in British India during 1767-1884

Surveyors General in the  Presidencies 1767-1815 A. Bengal 1767-1777 James Rennell 1777-1786 Thomas Call 1786-1788 Mark Wood !788-1794 Alexander Kyd 1794-1808 Robert Colebrooke 1808-1813 John Garstin 1813-1815 Charles Crawford. B. Bombay…

Science in British India I-II (1992-1993)

R.K. Kochhar (1992) Science in British India. I. Colonial tool. Current Science, 63, 689-694. R.K. Kochhar (1993) Science in British India. II. Indian response. Current Science, 64, 55-62. both reprinted in…