Author of The Vedic People (Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, Sanskrit & British Empire, Science and the British Empire (Routledge) and Astronomy in India (INSA)
Rajesh Kochhar (2012) Science and Culture, Vol. 78, No. 7-8 (Jul-Aug), pp. 280-305. (Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture delivered under the auspices of Indian Science News Association, Kolkata, 28 July 2011). The…
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…
College of Fort William, Calcutta, which was opened in 1800, instructed the newly appointed East India Company officials in vernacular languages.The professors were all European, but their assistants, called Munshis,…
American-born Elihu Yale (1649-1721) is best known as the benefactor of what was later named Yale University. He was the governor of Madras from 1687 to 1692. The following incident…