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Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Note on Spelling, Photographs, and Currencies | p. xxi |
Map of Atomic Energy, Space, and Defense Research Centers in 1974 | p. xxii |
Atomic Energy, Space, and Defense Research Centers in 1974 | p. xxiii |
List of Abbreviations | p. xxv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Building Scientific Careers in the 1920s: Saha and Bhatnagar, from London to Allahabad and Lahore | p. 23 |
The Bangalore Affair, 1935-38: Scientists and Conflict around C. V. Raman | p. 57 |
Imagining a Scientific State: Nehru, Scientists, and Political Planning, 1938-42 | p. 79 |
Homi Bhabha Confronts Science in India, 1939-44 | p. 97 |
Indian Scientists Engage the Empire: The CSIR and the Idea of Atomic and Industrial Power | p. 107 |
Saha, Bhatnagar, and Bhabha in Contrast, 1944-45 | p. 123 |
Restless in Calcutta: Meghnad Saha's Institution-Building | p. 133 |
Bhatnagar Builds a Chain of National Laboratories and Steps Upward | p. 149 |
Bhabha Builds his Institute in Bombay | p. 169 |
The Politics of the Early Indian Atomic Energy Committee and Commission | p. 183 |
Scientists' Networks, Nehru, and India's Defense Research and Development | p. 205 |
A Scientist in the Political System: Professor Saha Goes to Parliament, 1952-56 | p. 227 |
The Indian Cabinet and Scientific Advice in the 1950s and 1960s: Bhabha, Atomic Energy, and Reforming Scientific and Industrial Research | p. 249 |
A New Scientific Elite: Sarabhai Builds Another Atomic Energy Network, 1966-71 | p. 277 |
A Day in the Life of Two Research Institutes in Bombay and Calcutta | p. 291 |
Governance, Management, and Working Conditions in Research Institutes Founded by Saha and Bhabha | p. 311 |
Governance and Influence in the Research Institutes Bhatnagar Built | p. 351 |
Articulating Science and Technology Policy for Indira Gandhi's Cabinet | p. 369 |
Building a High-Technology Economy through Atomic Energy, Space, and Electronics | p. 395 |
Nuclear Expectations and Resistance in India's Political Economy | p. 427 |
Scientists in India's War over Self-Reliance | p. 443 |
The First Bomb Test: Its Context, Reception, and Consequences in India | p. 479 |
The Scientific Community, the State of Emergency, and After, 1975-80 | p. 499 |
Conclusions | p. 523 |
Chronology of Events | p. 571 |
Biographical Notes | p. 577 |
Notes | p. 591 |
Index of Names | p. 671 |
Subject Index | p. 677 |
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