This work is a biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists, J.C. Bose, the plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest untrained mathematical geniuses the world has ever known. Nandy discusses the extent to which the colonial context within which these two men worked impinged on the calibre and nature of their research.
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Ashis Nandy is at Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India.
"Each section is well written and fairly informative. Therefore we find that the book is something more than a book on the cultural psychology of scientific creativity."--xxxx
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