Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western Science

This is a comprehensive, critical study of Jagadis Chandra Bose's science and philosophy of science in the context of the Western scientific culture. Drawing mainly on primary scientific literature and unpublished archival material, it describes Bose's precise contribution to physics, radio and biology. This book is intended for social, cultural and intellectual historians of India and of the colonial period, and historians of science and technology.