| Description |
1 online resource (650 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- E. K. Janaki Ammal: A Timeline -- Prologue -- 1 Tellicherry: A Modern Thiya Family -- 2 Madras I: Science and Politics in a Cosmopolitan City -- 3 Michigan I: First Lessons in Internationalism -- 4 Michigan II: The Private Life of Plants -- 5 England: Love, Tulips and Chiasmata -- 6 Madras II: A Flora of South India -- 7 Trivandrum: A Teaching Interlude -- 8 Trivandrum-Coimbatore-Krusadai: Unforgettable Sojourn |
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9 Coimbatore I: Dreaming of Russia -- 10 Coimbatore II: Making Order Out of Chaos -- 11 Great Britain I: Doing Science in the War Years -- 12 Merton-Kew: The Chromosome Atlas of Flowering Plants -- 13 Wisley I: Maker of Tetraploids -- 14 Nepal: A Pilgrim of Science -- 15 Wisley II: Craze for Chromosome Counts -- 16 Delhi: Director of Agriculture -- 17 Wisley III: The 'Wanderings' of Flowering Plants -- 18 Paris-London: On the Camellia Trail -- 19 Calcutta: Modernising Botany in India -- 20 Oak Ridge-Ann Arbor-Princeton: Tracer Atoms and Agriculture -- 21 Kandy: The Humid Tropics |
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22 Lucknow-Allahabad: The Central Botanical Laboratory -- 23 Jammu & Kashmir I: A Border Zone of Mixed Flora -- 24 Jammu & Kashmir II: High Altitude Flora, Polyploidy and Variation -- 25 Trombay: A Radiation Interlude -- 26 Madras III: The Madras Mint, Solanum and Other Stories -- 27 Madras IV: Forest Tracts and a Protest Movement -- 28 Madras-Nilgiris: Hill Tribes and Secret Herbs -- 29 The Final Salaams -- Epilogue: Portrait of a Nomad Woman Scientist -- Archival Sources -- E. K. Janaki Ammal's Publications -- General Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist -- Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897-1984). Using a wide range of archival sources, it presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000649727 |
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1000649725 |
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