The Kochhar clan
Excerpted from Rose, HA (1911) A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West frontier province ( Lahore: Government Printing Press) Vol. 2, p. 522 “The Kochhar…
Category: Publications
HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Publications and texts of (select) invited lectures, etc.
Public lecture on Rahu and Ketu, Panjab University Chandigarh 16-Jan-2017 1130am
Public lecture on Rahu and Ketu, PU Chandigarh 16 Jan 1130 am All are invited On 16th January, 1130am in Physics Auditorium Panjab University Chandigarh, I shall be giving a…
New Bengal social class under colonial auspices
Rajesh Kochhar (For details and referencing please see Kochhar, Rajesh (2008) Seductive orientalism: English education and modern science in colonial India, Social Scientist, 26, pp. 45-63. Kochhar, Rajesh (2008) …
Jayalalithaa 1948-2016
The following word picture of Jayalalithaa (to use the spellings she adopted in later years for better luck) is based on pieces of information , including from her distant relatives,…
Praising technical jugaad: Celebrating illiteracy
Harvinder Khetal (In love with jugaad, 26-Nov-2016; http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/sunday-special/people/in-love-with-jugaad/328851.html) has done well to draw attention to the interesting phenomenon known as jugaad. One however cannot but notice that she has…
The making of colonial Simla, 1815-1830: A Re-look
Simla finds first mention in passing in colonial records in 1816. At the time the area conjointly belonged to two princely states. The first permanent European structure, a residential building, was…
Why old Ghaggar cannot be the Rigvedic river Sarasvati?
Rajesh Kochhar Sarasvati is the most celebrated river in the Rigveda on whose banks numerous hymns were composed. While many rivers are merely named, Sarasvati is described at length…