Author of The Vedic People ( Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, 1715-1835 (Routledge), Sanskrit & British Empire ( Routledge), and (Jointly with Jayant Narlikar) of Astronomy in India (INSA).
India successfully launched its first unmanned spacecraft, Chandrayaan-I, on 22 October 2008. On 14 November 2008, it entered its final operational orbit at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface.…
HISTORICAL NOTE CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 94, NO. 6, 25 MARCH 2008 813 Science as a symbol of new nationhood: India and the International Geophysical Year 1957–58 Rajesh Kochhar The International…