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The years between the First and Second World Wars comprise a critical moment in the history of the world. In the aftermath of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution, individuals and countries sought new solutions and blueprints for a world of greater stability, equality, and interdependency. Their divergent ends and objectives were held together, if temporarily, by a euphoria for the vastness and integratedness of the world and the desire and optimism to remake it and shape the future of humanity.
This volume highlights this period in the political and social mobilization that comprises the “internationalist moment,” through the lens of South Asians' interactions with a wider world and the wider world's interactions with South Asia. The essays contribute to a growing, but as yet, inadequate field of the intellectual history of South Asia.
Meghnad Saha's Two International Faces: Politics in Science and Science in Politics Between the Wars*
Meghnad Saha's Two International Faces: Politics in Science and Science in Politics Between the Wars*
Almost all Indian historians and scientists think they know who Meghnad Saha was, what he stood for, and what he did. A widely respected figure whose image still spans the West Bengal–Bangladesh boundary, he had both an all-India and international reputation, which grew after his death in 1956. Yet he was a much more curious and surprising figure than his stylized public image of “heroic socialist–nationalist– scientist” suggests. He contested issues which others had not thought to, and sometimes contended with (even confronted) public figures whom others thought were beyond criticism. When his scientific reputation ...
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