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In 1823, Raja Ram Mohun Roy wrote a perceptive letter to Governor General Lord Amherst pleading the cause of scientific education in India. It will be an apt occasion for science fraternity to commemorate its bi-centenary
Writing at a time of imperial Britain’s preoccupation with downtrodden Indian and Muslim women, she was not particularly impressed with the Western model of women’s emancipation or the efforts of some Indian male reformers to usher in modernity simply by unveiling women.