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The article’s framing points to a real historiographical problem in how India’s pre-independence scientific achievements get written out of the narrative.
It gives Nehru credit for institutionalizing science at the state level, which is fair to an extent,but conflating that with inventing scientific thinking in India, is historically false….because it conveniently erases the actual Indian scientists who came before him.
For example,
A) Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II and the Jantar Mantar observatories
B) Prafulla Chandra Ray or the Father of Indian Chemistry
C) Jagadish Chandra Bose and his pioneering work on radio waves
D) Satyendra Nath Bose and Meghnad Saha’s theoretical physics contributions
The blogger does not acknowledge any of those earlier scientific figures. By completely erasing these predecessors, this ode to Nehru, presents him as if scientific thinking had to be imported wholesale from the West through him, when in reality there was:
1) An 18th-century astronomical tradition
2) A 19th-century Indian chemistry school and research tradition
3) Early 20th-century physicists doing Nobel-caliber work
Blog celebrates Nehru for doing with state power what earlier Indians had already done with their own intellect and resources. I am sorry but this brown-washing builds a narrative where Nehru becomes the hero of Indian science, when the actual heroes were the scientists who did the thinking and the building without needing to be Prime Minister first.
A consistently relishing read. I should mention that the case for elitist centralisation perpetuated by Pandit Nehru may be overstated. Pandit Nehru had Vigyan Mandirs established to bring the scientific method and knowledge to the ground level.
It was a deeply held conviction. Scientific temper. AEC. ISRO. Which allow Indians to sleep peacefully at night. IITs coupled with IIMs. A statesman for eternity, the majesty of the Himalayas he and his daughter loved so deeply.
The article’s framing points to a real historiographical problem in how India’s pre-independence scientific achievements get written out of the narrative.
It gives Nehru credit for institutionalizing science at the state level, which is fair to an extent,but conflating that with inventing scientific thinking in India, is historically false….because it conveniently erases the actual Indian scientists who came before him.
For example,
A) Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II and the Jantar Mantar observatories
B) Prafulla Chandra Ray or the Father of Indian Chemistry
C) Jagadish Chandra Bose and his pioneering work on radio waves
D) Satyendra Nath Bose and Meghnad Saha’s theoretical physics contributions
The blogger does not acknowledge any of those earlier scientific figures. By completely erasing these predecessors, this ode to Nehru, presents him as if scientific thinking had to be imported wholesale from the West through him, when in reality there was:
1) An 18th-century astronomical tradition
2) A 19th-century Indian chemistry school and research tradition
3) Early 20th-century physicists doing Nobel-caliber work
Blog celebrates Nehru for doing with state power what earlier Indians had already done with their own intellect and resources. I am sorry but this brown-washing builds a narrative where Nehru becomes the hero of Indian science, when the actual heroes were the scientists who did the thinking and the building without needing to be Prime Minister first.
A consistently relishing read. I should mention that the case for elitist centralisation perpetuated by Pandit Nehru may be overstated. Pandit Nehru had Vigyan Mandirs established to bring the scientific method and knowledge to the ground level.
It was a deeply held conviction. Scientific temper. AEC. ISRO. Which allow Indians to sleep peacefully at night. IITs coupled with IIMs. A statesman for eternity, the majesty of the Himalayas he and his daughter loved so deeply.