Like religion and spirituality, India has also been a top country in mathematics and science. And today again it is marking a different identity on the map of the whole world. There is amazing achievement in IT i.e. Information Technology and today India has become a superpower in the world in this field. In ancient times India's physicians like Charaka, Sushruta, Jivaka and amazing alchemists like Nagarjuna were world famous and scientists like Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya made astonishing discoveries in science as well as mathematics. Today everyone accepts India's great contribution in this direction. Similarly, the invention of 'zero' is a discovery of India, which opened the door to the latest discoveries in science and mathematics. In this book, well-known litterateur and science-thinker Prakash Manu has told about the life and great contribution of such epoch-making scientists of India, by reading which child and adolescent readers will know about the great scientific tradition of their country. At the same time, a dream and a new courage Will arise within them to come forward and do something new in this field.

Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XV, Part 4 comprises chapters contributed by eminent scholars. It discusses the historical background of the establishment of science institutes that were established in pre-Independence India, and still exist, their functions and their present status. This volume discusses Indian science institutes that specialize in a particular field. It also delves into the area of engineering sciences.

This comprehensive and extensively researched study deals primarily with the economic, business and management models from the Indian perspectives. The third edition of the book presents updated details, latest data and new information obtained from authentic sources in order to understand the topics discussed. It provides detailed information collected from field studies undertaken in different industrial and business centres across the country. The details contained in the book have been obtained from various empirical and research studies and reputed national and international sources. The author contends that India remained a strong economic, business and management power for most of the time in history, and the country has the potential to achieve the premier status even today. He gives masterly analysis of not only the Indian economic, business and management models, but also the popular economic, business and management models of the other countries. The author asserts that a paradigm shift in thinking is urgently needed to understand the ground realities and the functioning Indian systems, so that the country could be taken forward with the necessary orientation and suitable policies. Intended primarily for the postgraduate students of Management, the book would also be useful to the students of Economics and Commerce, as well as to the professionals interested in the study of the Indian economy, business and management from the Indian perspectives. KEY FEATURES : A unique presentation of the Indian economic environment and its functioning models since the ancient periods. Comparative study of the Eastern and Western business models giving a holistic view of the subject. Historical development of the Indian management systems and the Western theories with details of contemporary management practices. Text reinforced with plenty of data to validate the concepts and a large number of examples and case studies to illustrate the concepts discussed. Updated with the latest data, recent developments and new information.

This report gives an account of the progress and present status of science in India. Its scope is in the main limited to developments of Indian science in plasma physics and geo-astrophysics. It does not attempt to describe all universities and research institutions in India. It does, however, give a fairly broad cross-section of Indian scientific research in the aforementioned fields. (Author).

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, who was highly mobile, and a life that intersected with several significant historical events—the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II, the struggle for Indian Independence, the social relations of science movement, the Lysenko affair, the green revolution, the dawn of environmentalism and the protest movement against a proposed hydro-electric project in the Silent Valley in the 1970s and 1980s. The volume brings into focus her work on mapping the origin and evolution of cultivated plants across space and time, to contribute to a grand history of human evolution, her works published in peer-reviewed Indian and international journals of science, as well as her co-authored work, Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945), considered a bible by practitioners of the discipline. It also looks at her correspondence with major personalities of the time, including political leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, biologists like Cyril D. Darlington, J. B. S. Haldane and H. H. Bartlett, geographers like Carl Sauer and social activists like Hilda Seligman, who all played significant roles in shaping her world view and her science. A story spanning over North America, Europe and Asia, this biography is a must-have for scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, gender studies, especially those studying women in the sciences, history and South Asian studies. It will also be a delight for the general reader.

Explore how Western-trained Asian-born scientists' return migrations are fueling and fueled by Asia's rise in the global scientific field.

In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared. However, this immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. Female migrants are depicted either as family migrants following in the path chosen by men, or as victims of desperation, forced into the migrant path due to economic exigencies. This book investigates the work trajectories and related assimilation experiences of independent Indian women who have chosen their own migratory pathways in the United States. The links between individual experiences and the macro trends of women, work, immigration and feminism are explored. The authors use historical records, previously unpublished gender disaggregate immigration data, and interviews with Indian women who have migrated to the US in every decade since the 1960s to demonstrate that independent migration among Indian women has a long and substantial history. Their status as skilled independent migrants can represent a relatively privileged and empowered choice. However, their working lives intersect with the gender constraints of labor markets in both India and the US. Vijaya and Biswas argue that their experiences of being relatively empowered, yet pushing against gender constraints in two different environments, can provide a unique perspective to the immigrant assimilation narrative and comparative gender dynamics in the global political economy. Casting light on a hidden, but steady, stream within the large group of skilled immigrants to the United States from India, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of political economy, anthropology, and sociology, including migration, race, class, ethnic and gender studies, as well as Asian studies.