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Rajesh Kochhar

Author of The Vedic People ( Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, 1715-1835 (Routledge), and (jointly with Jayant Narlikar) of Astronomy in India (INSA)

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New Bengal social class under colonial auspices

Rajesh Kochhar 26/12/2016 No Comments

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)  Cultivation of science in the 19th century Bengal, Indian Journal of Physics, 82, pp. 1005-1082.) – In 1977 the noted ( continue reading… )

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