| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

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Subrata Dasgupta. Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western Science. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 309. $29.95.

Jagadis Chandra Bose has been a mythical figure for the people of India in general and the Bengalis in particular. A whole generation has been fed on the heroic efforts of this first modern Indian scientist who struggled to retrieve and revive the lost glory of Indian scientific tradition. While at the popular level he has been a cult figure (for his "discovery" of radio telegraphy), for social analysts Bose was "a lapsed scientist and half-forgotten mystic." 1

Subrata Dasgupta's book is perhaps the first critical account of successes and failures of this pioneering scientist of modern India. It is critical to the extent that it places Bose's achievements and failures as a scientist and human being under larger public scrutiny. The public scrutiny of the making of a scientist and scientific institution further submerges into the broader discipline of the social history of science. Although a large part of the book is focused on the internal history of the making of Bose's ideas as a physicist and plant biologist, the narrative is simple and replete with anecdotes that make it engaging reading. . . .

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