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Nucleus and Nation : Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India /
In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British and respect from the larger world. Over the cours...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Spelling, Photographs, and Currencies
- Map of Atomic Energy, Space, and Defense Research Centers in 1974
- Atomic Energy, Space, and Defense Research Centers in 1974
- List of Abbreviations
- ONE. Introduction
- TWO. Building Scientific Careers in the 1920s: Saha and Bhatnagar, from London to Allahabad and Lahore
- THREE. The Bangalore Affair, 1935-38: Scientists and Conflict around C. V. Raman
- FOUR. Imagining a Scientific State: Nehru, Scientists, and Political Planning, 1938-42
- FIVE. Homi Bhabha Confronts Science in India, 1939-44
- SIX. Indian Scientists Engage the Empire: The CSIR and the Idea of Atomic and Industrial Power
- SEVEN. Saha, Bhatnagar, and Bhabha in Contrast, 1944-45
- EIGHT. Restless in Calcutta: Meghnad Saha's Institution-Building
- NINE. Bhatnagar Builds a Chain of National Laboratories and Steps Upward
- TEN. Bhabha Builds His Institute in Bombay
- ELEVEN. The Politics of the Early Indian Atomic Energy Committee and Commission
- TWELVE. Scientists' Networks, Nehru, and India's Defense Research and Development
- THIRTEEN. A Scientist in the Political System: Professor Saha Goes to Parliament, 1952-56
- FOURTEEN. The Indian Cabinet and Scientific Advice in the 1950s and 1960s: Bhabha, Atomic Energy, and Reforming Scientific and Industrial Research
- FIFTEEN. A New Scientific Elite: Sarabhai Builds Another Atomic Energy Network, 1966-71
- SIXTEEN. A Day in the Life of Two Research Institutes in Bombay and Calcutta
- SEVENTEEN. Governance, Management, and Working Conditions in Research Institutes Founded by Saha and Bhabha
- EIGHTEEN. Governance and Influence in the Research Institutes Bhatnagar Built
- NINETEEN. Articulating Science and Technology Policy for Indira Gandhi's Cabinet
- TWENTY. Building a High-Technology Economy through Atomic Energy, Space, and Electronics
- TWENTY-ONE. Nuclear Expectations and Resistance in India's Political Economy
- TWENTY-TWO. Scientists in India's War over Self-Reliance
- TWENTY-THREE. The First Bomb Test: Its Context, Reception, and Consequences in India
- TWENTY-FOUR. The Scientific Community, the State of Emergency, and After, 1975-80
- TWENTY-FIVE. Conclusions
- Chronology of Events
- Biographical Notes
- Notes
- Index of Names
- Index of Names