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D.D. Kosambi

by Ram Ramaswamy
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789369891566
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 384
  • Original Price: INR 899.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 510 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical

Historian ... Mathematician ... Marxist ... Polymath ... D.D. Kosambi defied labels. The range and intellectual heft of his scholarship was truly astounding, with fundamental contributions in differential geometry and analyses in mathematics, the Kosambi distance in genetics, a statistical analysis of ancient coin hoards, a radical reinterpretation of Indian history and stellar compilations of the poetry of Vidyakara and Bhartrhari-all this in addition to a firm commitment to world peace and environmental activism.

Yet, for a man who contributed so much to the Indian intellectual tradition, he remains largely unknown. Sixty years after his passing, there is scant recognition of his talents-he is quoted more often than he is read and praised more often than he is analysed.

Ram Ramaswamy's remarkable biography of Kosambi seeks to correct this lapse. Set against the backdrop of fascinating social, political, scientific and historiographical transformation in the subcontinent, and drawing from letters, journal entries, family accounts and unprecedented archival material, D.D. Kosambi: One Life, Many Worlds reveals a rare incandescent genius and a fearless independent spirit with boundless curiosity-whose relevance in the fields of pedagogy, research and invention can be seen even today.

Ram Ramaswamy taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from 1986 till his retirement in 2018, in the Schools of Physical Sciences and Computational and Integrative Sciences. His research has mainly been in non-linear and statistical physics, as well as in computational and systems biology. In addition, he has written extensively on issues pertaining to higher education and other related areas.

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