Science and Society in India

“In India he has executed his present mission with great ability, alacrity and enthusiasm. And I can personally testify to the favourable response he has elicited from the academic world Dr Motwani has given a succinct survey of the development of science from its very beginning in the Orient, its spread and distribution in the West through the march of the Saracenic civilization, and its influence upon the development of modern democracy, industrialism and nationalism and especially on the social disruption and catastrophe which Western humanity is now facing. Dr Motwani deserves the thanks of everybody for bringing forward this significance of sociology in India’s present era of planning and reconstruction. He has a keen and alert mind, observant of all social facts and changes that he can also bring into an integrated whole for interpretation and forecast. The Universities of India will do well in pondering over his timely warning and advice.” RADHAKAMAL MUKERJEE