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India's nuclear estate (1983)

AuteurDhirendra Sharma
Datum1983
Classificatie 4.03.0.00/01 (INDIA - ALGEMEEN)
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Prologue

THIS study examines the sociology and politics of India's nuclear programme. 
Problems of transfer of sophisticated technology, its assessment and 
diffusion, and its ramifications for socio-political developments of a Third
World nation are the major concerns of the present investigation. It 
specially aims to critically examine India's official claims to self-reliance 
in nuclear know how, and its advantages for the country's industrial and 
economic advancement. It attempts to offer the broadest possible 
interpretation of events relating to formulation and evolution of nuclear 
strategy which has, directly or indirectly, affected India's scientific 
growth and development.
Organisational development of nuclear energy in India has been credited to 
Homi J. Bhabha. But his personality cult systematically built in the country 
has also hampered the growth of scientific institutions (culture). 
Controversy between Meghnad Saha, the doyen of nuclear sciences in India, and 
Bhabha, the official founder of the Atomic Energy establishment, deserves 
serious consideration. Robert S. Anderson (Canada) has done a commendable 
study on this sensitive issue on which most Indians feel constraints to speak 
out their mind. Anderson's monograph Building Scientific Institutions in 
India: Saha and Bhabha, although published in 1975, is still the best study 
on the background of the two personalities which represented two divergent 
approaches to the nuclear development. It provides a comparative purview of 
the early events which contradicts the official history of nuclear energy 
in India. For this reason, Anderson's is the work no student of history of 
scientific organisation, particularly of nuclear energy in India, should 
ignore. It is regretted that the book is not available with many libraries 
in Indian scientific institutions.

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