This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist—Edavaleth
Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897–1984). Using a wide range of archival sources, it presents a …

This volume emerged in the context of 1955 and 1956 which were critical watershed years
in the evolution of post-war environmental history, in particular with the holding of WL …

Sengupta), a physicist, the first woman PhD from Kolkata University in Physics. She had the
great privilege of working with Prof. SN Bose, the discoverer of Bose statistics and a product …

Readers meet eleven women scientists, whose research and discoveries are outstanding in
their fields, in this inspiring collective biography. With accessible and upbeat writing, readers …

Inspiring, informative, ingenious... meet twenty-five of India's most celebrated female
scientists. From astrophysics to zoology, learn what it takes to make a career in science …

I come from a village in India, which has some six hundred thousand villages, and I grew up
as a villager and thus I feel some affinity to my fellow villagers which constitute eighty …

Abstract Using the title The Calcutta Chromosome of Amitav Ghosh's 1995 novel as a
starting point, this paper aims to explore how an object of biomedical research, the …

Recent scholarship has aligned Ghosh's writing with critiques of science as an ideology and
instrument of Western colonialism. Focusing primarily on the 1995 novel The Calcutta …

The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the
contemporary issues of gender and women in science. Women in Science includes a …

Although women participated in shaping scientific thinking from the outset, they very rarely
became visible. This imbalance continues today, although there are currently more female …