SCIENTIFIC TEMPERS

SCIENTIFIC TEMPERS

Dinesh Mohan

Intellectual Colonisation: Science and Technology in East-West Relations by Abdur Rahman Vikas Publishing House, Delhi, 1983, 143 pp., 95.00

The Role of Parliament in the Formulation of National Science and Technology Policyby Abdur Rahman and Nirmal Haritash National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Delhi, 1983, 108 pp., price not stated.

Sophical Roots of Scientific Traditionby Abdur Rahman National Institute of Science, Technology and Development, Delhi, 1983, 25 pp., price not stated.

Jan-Feb 1984, volume 8, No 4

Once upon a time intellectuals in Europe were seriously debating whether America Indians had souls (because if they didn’t there would be no point in sending missionaries to the new continent). A few years later white liberals were troubled about the morality of owning black slaves and then with the issue of the brown indentured labour—the new kind of slavery. And finally, in a supreme twist of logic the white world itself went through murder and mayhem, partly to decide whether the so-called Aryans were actually superior.

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