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Indian Science and Technology during the Freedom Struggle: A ‘Science Diplomacy’ Perspective

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Title Indian Science and Technology during the Freedom Struggle: A ‘Science Diplomacy’ Perspective
 
Creator KUMAR, HEMANT
NAMRATA
 
Subject Freedom struggle
India
Science diplomacy
S&T
 
Description 79-96
Science Diplomacy (SD) has emerged as a key component of
foreign policy in the first decade of the 21st century. It provides an
outlookto explore science and technology and diplomatic efforts in
three distinctive perspectives namely 'science for diplomacy',
'diplomacy for science' and 'science in diplomacy'. However, one
must note that this is not a new phenomenon and has been in
practice in different forms for centuries and Indian S&T is not an
exception. However, literature dominates the European perspective
and is not much available from the non-western contexts. Therefore,
the paper aims to explore S&T in the Indian context from the SD
perspective in the first half of the 20th century, which also marked
the period of freedom struggle at its peak.
The paper uses the historiography of science method and
purposively selected three cases, two from the 'colonised' and one
from the 'colonisers' perspective. The first is The Association for
the Advancement of Scientific and Industrial Education of Indians
(AASIEI) and the second set of cases reflects the efforts of four
Indian scientists, namely Saha, Bhatnagar, Raman, and Bhabha.
The third case is of a diplomatic effort to gather Indian support for
the war by the British when they sent Hill to India. The events and
anecdotes suggest that SD was very much part of the freedom
struggle movement and after independence, they shaped the
Indian S&T in a major way. In the end, the paper suggests a few
learning for Indian S&T from the SD perspective.
 
Date 2022-07-27T10:30:02Z
2022-07-27T10:30:02Z
2022-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 2278-2796 (Online); 2278-2788 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/60163
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source JST Vol.10(1-2) [January-June 2022]