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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Empires in Perspective Ser |
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Empires in Perspective Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of Bengali and Sanskrit words -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Writing a history of modern science in South Asia -- Overview -- Reconfiguring the term bhadralok -- History of physics -- Postcolonial theory -- Science studies in India -- Bhadraloks, nationalism, and scientific modernity -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Bhadralok culture and the making of Satyendranath Bose |
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Bhadraloks, the Indian intelligentsia -- The making of a modern Indian scientist -- First appointment and training -- The reception of relativity in India and the making of Bose -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Satyendranath Bose and the concept of light quantum -- Local Visvajaneenata cosmopolitanism of Bose's science -- Bose's physics -- Years in Dhaka -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Colonial modernity and C.V. Raman: Verifying the light quantum -- Biographical comments -- En route towards the discovery of the Raman Effect -- Building an international image -- Explaining the effect |
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Raman Effect and Quantum Physics -- The place of the Raman Effect in the history of quantum physics -- Work by Landsberg and Mandelstam: The simultaneous discovery of Raman Effect, the Nobel Prize of 1930, and Stigler's Law of Eponymy -- Sommerfeld and the reception of Raman's work in Germany: Orientalism and science -- Between nationalism and regionalism -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Meghnad Saha: Applying the light quantum -- The transition from shudra to bhadralok -- Saha's scientific pursuits -- Nationalism -- After the European sojourn -- Social dimensions of science: Rivers and water |
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Science and the nation -- On the margins of the nation -- Saha's scientism -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Reflections on bhadralok physics -- Satyendranath Bose: Counting modernity -- C.V. Raman: Verifying modernity -- Meghnad Saha: Applying modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archives and special collections -- Personal collections -- Journal archives -- Newspapers -- Interviews -- Secondary sources -- Appendix -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Physics.
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Physics -- India -- History -- 20th century
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physics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317024705 |
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1317024702 |
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