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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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Government College University Lahore: Book Review

Rajesh Kochhar 22/10/2017 No Comments

This is an enlarged version of the Book Review published in TheTribune(Spectrum) 22 October 2017 http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/books-reviews/making-of-an-institution/485000.html BOOK REVIEW Khalid Aftab (2017) Against All Odds: Institute Building in the Real World (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications)     Rajesh Kochhar Panjab University Chandigarh [email protected]   The author, Prof. Khalid Aftab, served as the ( continue reading… )

Hindoo College Calcutta Revisited: Its pre-history and the role of Rammohun Roy

Rajesh Kochhar 03/10/2012 No Comments

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 May 1816 decision to establish the (school section of) Hindoo College Calcutta “for the tuition of sons of respectable Hindus” ( continue reading… )

Cultivation of Science in the 19th Century Bengal(2008)

Rajesh Kochhar 15/12/2008 No Comments

  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 India was the first country outside the Western World to take to modern science. The initiative came in the later ( continue reading… )

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