Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India Robert S. Anderson
Type:	eBook
Released:	2010
Page Count:	728
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0226019756
ISBN-13:	9780226019758

Review “Robert Anderson was the first to study systematically the rise of nuclear science and physicists in India. This landmark study, the outcome of four decades of careful archival and ethnographic research, has been long awaited. It is by far the most comprehensive study of the international and domestic networks of scientists and scientific policy makers ever completed. It fills countless holes in the historical record and provides a wealth of new details regarding the functioning of Indian scientific establishments and the careers of the founding ‘political’ scientists who shaped independent India’s scientific and technological institutions.”—Itty Abraham, University of Texas (Itty Abraham, University of Texas ) “It is not easy to write a gripping narrative of the technical details, institutional arrangements, and interpersonal relationships within scientific institutions and between political powers, but Robert Anderson has pulled it off. Nucleus and Nation is a complex, wide-ranging, and engaging work.”—Benjamin Zachariah, University of Sheffield (Benjamin Zachariah, University of Sheffield ) “The history of Indian science since independence is the canvas on which Anderson has painted an intricate picture of the development of nuclear power in India. Nucleus and Nation embraces a breathtaking range; it includes incisive portraitures of key participants, analysis of political events, and deep insights into social and public contexts of modernization and industrialization that reveal the links between the public and the private at significant junctures in Indian history. Anderson’s mastery of his archival materials and their narrative exposition, as well as his personal observations about the functioning of scientific institutions in India combined with his informed grasp of science and debates within Indian nationalism and the contentious context of globalization, make the book one that many of us working in this area have been waiting for.”—Indira Chowdhury, Historian and Archivist, Archival Resources for Contemporary History, Bangalore, India   (Indira Chowdhury, Historian and Archivist, Archival Resources for Contemporary H ) “In this fascinating book, based on considerable research, Anderson recounts in detail the role and relevance of scientific activists, their interactions with Western scientists, and the encouragement they received from the Indian government and support from the West.”—Choice  (V. V. Raman, Rochester Institute of Technology Choice ) About the Author Robert S. Anderson is professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.