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Nucleus and nations: scientists, international networks and power in India/ Robert S. Anderson

By: Anderson, Robert SMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010Description: xx, 683 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226019758Subject(s): Nuclear industry -- IndiaDDC classification: 509.540904

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Building Scientific Careers in the 1920s: Saha and Bhatnagar, from London to Allahabad and Lahore -- 3. The Bangalore Affair, 1935-38: Scientists and Conflict around C. V. Raman -- 4. Imagining a Scientific State: Nehru, Scientists, and Political Planning, 1938-42 -- 5. Homi Bhabha Confronts Science in India, 1939-44 -- 6. Indian Scientists Engage the Empire: The CSIR and the Idea of Atomic and Industrial Power -- 7. Saha, Bhatnagar, and Bhabha in Contrast, 1944-45 -- 8. Restless in Calcutta: Meghnad Saha's Institution-Building -- 9. Bhatnagar Builds a Chain of National Laboratories and Steps Upward -- 10. Bhabha Builds His Institute in Bombay -- 11. The Politics of the Early Indian Atomic Energy Committee and Commission -- 12. Scientists' Networks, Nehru, and India's Defense Research and Development -- 13. A Scientist in the Political System: Professor Saha Goes to Parliament, 1952-56 -- 14. The Indian Cabinet and Scientific Advice in the 1950s and 1960s: Bhabha, Atomic Energy, and Reforming Scientific and Industrial Research -- 15. A New Scientific Elite: Sarabhai Builds Another Atomic Energy Network, 1966-71 -- 16. A Day in the Life of Two Research Institutes in Bombay and Calcutta -- 17. Governance, Management, and Working Conditions in Research Institutes Founded by Saha and Bhabha -- 18. Governance and Influence in the Research Institutes Bhatnagar Built -- 19. Articulating Science and Technology Policy for Indira Gandhi's Cabinet -- 20. Building a High-Technology Economy through Atomic Energy, Space, and Electronics -- 21. Nuclear Expectations and Resistance in India's Political Economy -- 22. Scientists in India's War over Self-Reliance -- 23. The First Bomb Test: Its Context, Reception, and Consequences in India -- 24. The Scientific Community, the State of Emergency, and After, 1975-80 -- 25. Conclusions

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	509.540904 AND/N (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P11908

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1. Introduction --
2. Building Scientific Careers in the 1920s: Saha and Bhatnagar, from London to Allahabad and Lahore --
3. The Bangalore Affair, 1935-38: Scientists and Conflict around C. V. Raman --
4. Imagining a Scientific State: Nehru, Scientists, and Political Planning, 1938-42 --
5. Homi Bhabha Confronts Science in India, 1939-44 --
6. Indian Scientists Engage the Empire: The CSIR and the Idea of Atomic and Industrial Power --
7. Saha, Bhatnagar, and Bhabha in Contrast, 1944-45 --
8. Restless in Calcutta: Meghnad Saha's Institution-Building --
9. Bhatnagar Builds a Chain of National Laboratories and Steps Upward --
10. Bhabha Builds His Institute in Bombay --
11. The Politics of the Early Indian Atomic Energy Committee and Commission --
12. Scientists' Networks, Nehru, and India's Defense Research and Development --
13. A Scientist in the Political System: Professor Saha Goes to Parliament, 1952-56 --
14. The Indian Cabinet and Scientific Advice in the 1950s and 1960s: Bhabha, Atomic Energy, and Reforming Scientific and Industrial Research --
15. A New Scientific Elite: Sarabhai Builds Another Atomic Energy Network, 1966-71 --
16. A Day in the Life of Two Research Institutes in Bombay and Calcutta --
17. Governance, Management, and Working Conditions in Research Institutes Founded by Saha and Bhabha --
18. Governance and Influence in the Research Institutes Bhatnagar Built --
19. Articulating Science and Technology Policy for Indira Gandhi's Cabinet --
20. Building a High-Technology Economy through Atomic Energy, Space, and Electronics --
21. Nuclear Expectations and Resistance in India's Political Economy --
22. Scientists in India's War over Self-Reliance --
23. The First Bomb Test: Its Context, Reception, and Consequences in India --
24. The Scientific Community, the State of Emergency, and After, 1975-80 --
25. Conclusions

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