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 William Petrie (d.1816) was an influential Madras Civil Servant of the English East India Company who remained in India from 1765 till 1812 with some breaks, and later…
Sunday Times of India, 14 July 1991 Rajesh Kochhar [This essay reviews Kameshwar C. Wali’s authorized biography of Subramanya Chandrasekhar, titled Chandra. The review was written when Chandrasekhar was still…
Vistas in Astronomy, Vol. 34, pp. 69–105, 1991 R. K. Kochhar Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560034, India CONTENTS 1. Ancient and medieval times 2. Use…
R. Kochhar (2002) Madras and Kodaikanal observatories: A brief history. Resonance, 7, 16-28. http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/Aug2002/pdf/Aug2002p16-28.pdf