Indian science: Gandhi backs research

Mahatma Gandhi

Goethe's science: an approach to research in American Indian Studies.

In The Wholeness of Nature (1996), Henri Bortoft shows how a Goethean science of qualitative wholeness complements the analytic and causal- explanatory framework that underlies most research in the natural and social sciences. Goethe's insights and methods suggest that a better understanding of Indian tribes may occur when a tribe is regarded as its own abstraction and its own explanation. In G...

Declining Trend in Science Education and Research in Indian Universities

Universities are knowledge based organizations whose functions are largely confined to teaching and research. They are designed to operate to discover and disseminate knowledge by possessing significant and relevant expertise in all disciplines. India has a very vast structure of education and its higher education sector is now highly advanced, compared to its neighboring countries. The vast ne...

Indian Science Congress

sense of the tremendous results that would follow from an adequate exploitation of the discoveries made by themselves and by other workers in the field of medical research. The present position of medical research in India is very much more favourable than could have been hoped for a few years ago. Looking at the state of affairs in Bengal alone we find that the unremitting labour of Sir Leonar...

Indian Science Congress, 1922

The Medical Research Section of the Indian SnVnre Congress opened its fourth session on Wednesday, the 1st of February 1922. Major J. Cunningham, i.m.S., delivered the presidential address the title of which was " India's debt to Medical Research," and the text of which will be found elsewhere in the current number. After Major Cunningham's address the proceedings on tile first day were as follows