Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bosu The Physicist/Biophysicist of Modern Bharat (1857-1937)

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India is celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of one of its illustrious scientists Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose. The publication of the monograph "Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose" by the Vidya Bharati on this auspicious occasion is a most fitting and heart warming tribute to the great scientist. I congratulate the author and the publisher for this laudable initiative. It will definitely inspire young impressionable minds in the educational institutions to pursue scientific research.

Professor Bose was the first person to fabricate a device to generate electromagnetic waves but the credit went to Marconi. Bose had published his findings in the proceedings of the Royal Society, London on April 27, 1899, over two years before Marconi's first wireless system was patented on December 12, 1901. However, after almost a century the scientists accept that in fact, Bose is the father of the telecommunication system.

Another important contribution of Dr. Bose was to prove that plants have life which he established by his experiments. He invented highly sensitive instruments which were able to detect even extremely minute responses. He also demonstrated that plants grow faster in pleasant environment as compared to harsh environment.

It is believed that one has to know the earlier 100 years if one wants to understand a great leader in completeness in any of the fields of his activity.

It was the first war of independence in 1857 in India all over due to the policies of British Government which was against Indian pride, distorting Indian history undermining everything 'Indian' including Indian traditions; Indian science; Indian education system which was totally replaced by the British system of education; Indian technical skills whether engineering or shipping industries, fabric or steel industries, which were either totally wiped off or transferred to Britain; transforming the Ayurvedic system of medicine by that of the western system; ruining the agriculture economy and the irrigation system by acquiring all the agricultural land where the villagers were compelled to irrigate the land for their masters like slaves. At the same time church was very powerful particularly in remote areas, socially terrorizing people leading to exploitation in the form of conversions to Christianity that was going on a large scale to speed up the expansion of their empire and influence through their education system and their health services, alongwith the allurement of providing employment in Government institutions. The concept of 'slave' did never exist in ancient India. However, it existed in the western world e.g. Islamic countries and wherever Britishers constructed their colonies. As of now, as per the information available through the internet, a large number of 'slaves' are reported in India. When Britishers entered India for starting trade/ business, it was a Golden age of the country, But at the time they 'freed' the country in 1947 after a lot of upheavels and 41 famines during a period of 150 years without effecting the revenue generation of British rulers, it was a impoverished country. One can at least imagine the agony of terror created by Britishers by the fact that during this war of independence and after several million Indians were massacred by the British forces. In totality it was a terror across the social level, educational and historical level, economic front and also at the moral and religious level. In 1858, the Queen of England directly took over the administration in India. The Indian intellectuals working in the field of science, engineering and medicine were looked down. Indiginous skill of textile (Malmal of Dhaka) and agricultural expertise were brutally crushed. In such an environment even intellectuals started competing with each other for adopting english mannerism. They were enthusiastic in how they can be more and more english in appearance, thinking and etiquettes to the best liking of their 'masters'. Such a 'class' of intellectuals used to become a small part of the British Governement machinery helping to oppress their own brotherns and keep the country 'slave'.