How does a premier institute of science come into being? How does it foster a culture promoting free thinking and original research? What impact do the policies of a newly independent nation have on the way it functions? Exploring such themes and analysing the dissonances between institutional records and individual recollections, this book narrates the unique history of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. Acutely aware that a scientific ...
The Frail Hero And Virile History: Gender And The Politics Of Culture In Colonial Bengal
"The Frail Hero and Virile History opens with this provocative poem and uses the strong, contrasting imagery of the heroic goddess Durga and the weak, grovelling Bengali male to problematize the conventional understanding of nationalist identity. Indira Chowdhury focuses on the multiple icons of identity that evolved around the colonial stereotypes and analyses their role in the nationalist project. It is the journey of this 'effeminate' Bengali to ...
