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THE genetic relation between the serious pursuit of natural science and the profession of medicine is nowhere better illustrated than in British India, and in British India nowhere better than by the Asiatic Society of Bengal (the original “Asiatick Society”), and by its autochthonous congener, the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, founded in 1876 b Dr. Mohendro Lal Sircar, a practitioner of medicine in the irAdian quarter of Calcutta At a time when Indian universities were the purely examining bodies so dear to the Philistine soul, when secondary education in India was mainly bookmongery (to call it “literary” would be a fault to heaven), and literary gentlemen were brought from England to feed raw Indian youths with husks of commentary laboriously ground from the English classics, Dr. Mohendro Lal Sircar, a medical man immersed in the anxieties of a private practice, was probably the only educated Indian in Bengal whose ideas of eduratioti were approximately those held generally to-day by men of science in Great Britain.
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The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science 1 . Nature 99, 195–196 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099195b0
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