Discuss the impact of Freedom Movement On the development of Science and Technology In India.
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the early twentieth century, the Indian society had started witnessing the first stirrings for freedom from colonial rule. While their political aspirations led to a demand for self-rule, the frustration resulting from economic stranglehold found expression in their insistence on using only goods made in India. Swadeshi Movement provided further impetus for :
promotion of education along national lines and under national control with special reference to science and technology, industrialization of the country. In 1904, an Association for the Advancement of Scientific and Industrial Education of Indians was formed. The objed was to send qualified students to Europe, America and Japan forstudying science-based industries.
As mentioned earlier, in colonial India the environment was not conducive to higher studies, much less to research. Indians were allowed only. subordinate posts and even those who had distinguished themselves abroad were given less salary than the Europeans of the same grade and rank. This 'apartheid' in science made the Indians react strongly. J.C. Bose, the first noted Indian physicist, refused to accept this reduced salary for three years. Not only this, till the Royal Society recognized Bose, the college authorities refused him any research facility and considered his work as purely private. J.C. Bose was unorthodox in one more sense. He was one of the first among the modem scientists to take to interdisciplinary research. He started as a physicist but his interest in electrical responses took him to plant physiology." Whether it be education, agriculture or mining, the Congress touched several problems under its wide sweep.
promotion of education along national lines and under national control with special reference to science and technology, industrialization of the country. In 1904, an Association for the Advancement of Scientific and Industrial Education of Indians was formed. The objed was to send qualified students to Europe, America and Japan forstudying science-based industries.
As mentioned earlier, in colonial India the environment was not conducive to higher studies, much less to research. Indians were allowed only. subordinate posts and even those who had distinguished themselves abroad were given less salary than the Europeans of the same grade and rank. This 'apartheid' in science made the Indians react strongly. J.C. Bose, the first noted Indian physicist, refused to accept this reduced salary for three years. Not only this, till the Royal Society recognized Bose, the college authorities refused him any research facility and considered his work as purely private. J.C. Bose was unorthodox in one more sense. He was one of the first among the modem scientists to take to interdisciplinary research. He started as a physicist but his interest in electrical responses took him to plant physiology." Whether it be education, agriculture or mining, the Congress touched several problems under its wide sweep.
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