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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… )

English education in the 19th century Punjab

Rajesh Kochhar 29/10/2013 No Comments

Rajesh Kochhar Reprinted from Kochhar, Rajesh et al (eds) (2013) The Making of Modern Punjab: Education, Science  and Social Change c. 1850-c. 2000, pp. 15-19 ( Chandigarh: Panjab University).      Punjab was the second last territorial addition to British India. The ground realities here were different and the primary ( continue reading… )

Professor Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863-1948): A scientific biography

Rajesh Kochhar 11/06/2013 No Comments

Rajesh Kochhar Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali 140306, Punjab Send me an e-mail if you wish to receive  the pdf file. Physics News 2013, Vol.43, No. 1 (Jan.) pp.19-35 Professor Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863-1948) whose 150th birth anniversary falls this year was the first Indian officer in ( continue reading… )

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