International Year of Astronomy
The Tribune, chandigarh, Friday, 2008 January 4 Rajesh Kochhar THE United Nations has declared the year 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009) to commemorate…
Category: Publications
HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Publications and texts of (select) invited lectures, etc.
Recommended role model: A wise old monkey
Any body can react after the event. If you are, or want to be, in a leadership position, you must anticipate. There was a wise old monkey who addressed the…
Cultivation of Science in the 19th Century Bengal(2008)
Indian Journal of Physics, 82(7):1003-1082 (2008) Cultivation of Science in the 19th Century Bengal Rajesh Kochhar National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector 67, Mohali (Punjab) [email protected] Abstract…
Denationalised middle class: Global escape from Mandal (2004)
Economic and Political Weekly, 3 January 2004 Denationalised middle class: Global escape from Mandal Rajesh Kochhar Globalisation has prevented Indian upper castes from accepting a diminished role and status consistent…
Seductive orientalism:English education and modern science in colonial India(2008)
Social Scientist, 36:45-63, 2008 Prof. S.C. Mishra Memorial Lecture , 68th Indian History Congress, Delhi, 28 Dec. 2007 Seductive orientalism: \English education and modern science in colonial India Rajesh Kochhar Professor of Pharmaceutical…
Sucker of the year award(1999)
, January 16, 1999 The Sucker of the Year Award By Rajesh Kochhar RECENTLY All India Radio carried an item in its national news that a former Union Minister…
J.C. Bose in a historical perspective (2005)
Paper read at the workshop on “J.C. Bose and Today”at the 28th General Assembly of International Union of Radio Science, New Delhi,23 October 2005 The pioneering scientist who would…