NATIONAL SELFHOOD IN SCIENCE : A Saga of Struggles by Indian Scientists to Counter Colonial Apartheid

When colonial scholarship sought to sow confusion over our National Selfhood-Swatva-visionary scientists such as P. C. Ray and J. C. Bose, inspired by spiritual luminaries like Swami Vivekananda and Sister Nivedita, redefined it in light of our civilizational values and built enduring institutions. For them, science was a medium of national self-expression. Today, as Bharat is poised to reclaim its rightful place, National Selfhood in Science revisits their contributions and examines why, as a nation, we faltered over the past seven decades in realizing their dream and building upon the scientific foundations they laid.