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082 _a509.540904
_bAND/N
100 _aAnderson, Robert S.
245 0 _aNucleus and nations: scientists, international networks and power in India/
_cRobert S. Anderson
260 _aChicago:
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c2010.
300 _axx, 683 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
505 _a1. 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
650 _aNuclear industry
_zIndia
942 _cWB16