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THE fostering and development of the resources of India by means of scientific research is not a mere question of academic interest, but one on which the very economic existence of the country depends. Fortunately the Government of India has realised the danger of the situation, and is anxious to develop the vast potentialities of the country through the application of science, as Japan has already done with her far more limited resources. It is obvious that the success of the proposed scheme will largely depend on the encouragement of investigation among the Indian students and workers, who will necessarily be the principal recruits for the work of the utilisation of indigenous talent in the services of their own country. A quarter of a century ago, when science teaching was in its infancy in India, I ventured to predict that, through an ever-increasing ingenuity of devices necessary for extending the boundaries of knowledge, there would in the near future be seen in India an advance of skill and of invention among our workers, and that, if this skill could be assured, practical applications would not fail to follow in many fields of human activity.
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BOSE, J. Organisation of Scientific Work. Nature 105, 39 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105039a0
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