The Shaping of Indian Science: 1914-1947Universities Press, 2003 - 592 עמודים This is a compendium of the speeches of the Presidents of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) from 1914-2003. Through the years, these Presidents have inspired the Congress by their speeches-some of them visionary, some impassioned in their plea for Science, but all of them with a message that Science must be used for the good of the human race. |
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Message from the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee vii | 1 |
The Plains of Northern India and their Relationship | 16 |
On Scientific Research | 34 |
Researches on Cholera | 68 |
Dawn of Science in Modern India | 82 |
On Science and Industry | 96 |
On Relativity 101 | 117 |
Evolution Convergent and Divergent | 141 |
The Place of Geology in the Life of a Nation | 290 |
Fundamental Cosmological Problems | 306 |
Anthropology and India | 339 |
The Role of Science in the Recent Progress of Medicine | 355 |
The Indian Village Its Past Present and Future | 396 |
Researches in India and in Great Britain | 421 |
On Research in Chemistry in India | 443 |
An Episode of the Tertiary Era | 459 |
On Experimental Training | 162 |
Agriculture and Science | 176 |
On Chemistry of Natural Products | 210 |
On Raman Effect | 227 |
The Problem of Evolution | 247 |
Some Aspects of the Alpine Vegetation of the Himalaya and Tibet | 263 |
Science and Industry | 482 |
The Making of India A Review of some Aspects of | 498 |
Minerals Share in the War | 517 |
Give Science a Chance | 536 |
Science in the Service of the Nation | 574 |
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