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<span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold';">A Perspective on Scientific Temper in India </span>

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Title Statement <span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold';">A Perspective on Scientific Temper in India </span>
 
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Uncontrolled Index Term Scientific temper, Statement, Policy, Palampur Declaration
 
Summary, etc. <p><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The term “scientific temper” was first used in India by </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946. After he became the first Prime Minister of Independent India in 1947, Nehru relentlessly expanded the notion of scientific temper and strived hard to convince the political and scientific leadership to inculcate scientific temper among its citizens. However, this discourse is rooted in the pre-Nehruvian era. Though the term scientific temper was not in use, a number of social reformers, scholars and scientists advocated the need to instil a sprit of scientific enquiry in the society. The Post Nehruvian period </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">witnessed the Government’s commitment in its science and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">technology policy statements and constitutional amendments to develop scientific temper. In 1981, a statement on scientific temper was issued by a group of individuals, which evoked support as well as criticism from different quarters. In 2011, an attempt was made to revisit the 1981 scientific temper statement and the outcome was a revised statement, now known as the Palampur Declaration. This was followed by two international conferences and workshops, which built upon the conceptualization of Scientific Temper as well as a plan of action to promote it. The present paper attempts to situate the notion of ''Scientific Temper'' in the Indian context, and expose the nuances of how this concept has been developed. </span></p>
 
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2013-02-28 00:00:00
 
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Data Source Entry Journal of Scientific Temper (JST); ##issue.vol## 1, ##issue.no## 1 & 2 (2013): Journal of Scientific Temper
 
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