India's National Science Talent Search (NSTS) examination (1963 to 1976) was imagined and implemented by some top scientists of the period. It aimed to identify "talented" secondary school students with an aptitude for science and mathematics. Selected students attended undergraduate summer schools, did research in special labs during…

This paper is an attempt to reconstruct how C.V. Raman, a peripheral scientist in the early 20th century colonial India, managed to develop a research programme in physical optics from his remote colonial location. His attempts at self-training and self-education eventually led him to the discovery of the Raman Effect and to the Nobel Prize in…

In recent years use of narratives for teaching science at secondary school level has gained impetus. This paper deals with the problem of designing narratives for teaching scientific concept. The central issue of the problem of designing narratives for carrying scientific information is that science belongs to the domain of objective observation…

Since the beginning of the British colonial enterprise in India the representation of the relationship between Western biomedicine and Ayurveda has been based on a fundamental epistemological asymmetry. However much Ayurveda was represented in Orientalist literature as accurate, poetic, useful, scholarly, or interesting, it could never occupy with…

Offers a description of the instrumentation and methods utilized in this attempt at naked eye astronomy one century after the invention of the telescope. Also examines the motives which resulted in the implementation of an antiquated mode of observation. (Author/CP)

Examines the impact of the state on the institutionalization of modern science and technology in non-Western societies. Conditions for the degree of development of science are explained. The institutionalization of modern science and technology in Japan and India are also compared and contrasted. (ML)

Describes the structure of the observatory built in India in 1710 and shows the relationship of the scientific and geometric principles involved. (AL)

Describes India's recent development of science and technology in terms of social change, economic progress and national power. Explores the causal links between science and technology and the role public policy has had in the attainment of technological autonomy. Examines myths of science associated with Third World countries like India. (ML)

Discusses the change of the Great Tradition in India which occurred by the invasion of modern science and technology including the concepts of time, past, word, matter and mind, structure and change, and relationships. Suggests recommendations for creative use of modern science and technology. (YP)