Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

Jagadis Chunder Bose, by Sir
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Title: Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches
Author: Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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SIR JAGADIS CHUNDER BOSE
HIS LIFE AND SPEECHES
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CONTENTS
Page His Life and Career 1 Literature and Science 79 Marvels of Plant
Life 102 Plant Autographs--How Plants can record their own story 106
Invisible Light 113 Lecture on Electric Radiation 117 Plant Response
122 Evidence before the Public Services Commission 126 Prof. J. C.
Bose at Madura 143 Prof. J. C. Bose Entertained--Party at Ram Mohan

Library 147 History of a Discovery 154 A Social Gathering 165 Light
Visible and Invisible 169 Hindu University Address 172 The History of
a Failure that was Great 177 Quest of Truth and Duty 187 The Voice of
Life 200 The Praying Palm of Faridpur 222 Visualisation of Growth
292 Sir J. C. Bose at Bombay 231 Unity of Life 235 The Automatic
Writing of the Plant 243 Control of Nervous Impulse 247 Marvels of
Growth as Revealed by the "Magnetic Crescograph" 254 The
Night-Watch of Nymphaea 262 Wounded Plants 267

SIR JAGADIS CHUNDER BOSE
On the 30th November, 1858, Jagadis Chunder was born, in a
respectable Hindu family, which hails from village Rarikhal, situated in
the Vikrampur Pargana of the Dacca District, in Bengal. He passed his
boyhood at Faridpur, where his father, the late Babu Bhugwan Chunder
Bose, a member of the then Subordinate Executive Service was the
Sub-Divisional Officer; and it was there that he derived "the power and
strength that nerved him to meet the shocks of life."[1]
HIS FATHER
His father was a fine product of the Western Education in our country.
Speaking of him, says Sir Jagadis "My father was one of the earliest to
receive the impetus characteristic of the modern epoch as derived from
the West. And in his case it came to pass that the stimulus evoked the
latent potentialities of his race for evolving modes of expression
demanded by the period of transition in which he was placed. They
found expression in great constructive work, in the restoration of quiet
amidst disorder, in the earliest effort to spread education both among
men and women, in questions of social welfare, in industrial efforts, in
the establishment of people's bank and in the foundation of industrial
and technical schools."[2] However, his efforts--like most pioneer
efforts--failed. He became overpowered in the struggle. But his young
son, who witnessed the struggle, derived a great lesson which enabled
him "to look on success or failure as one"--or rather "failure as the
antecedent power which lies dormant for the long subsequent dynamic

expression in what we call success." "And if my life" says Sir Jagadis
"in any way came to be fruitful, then that came through the realisation
of this lesson."[2] So great was the influence exerted on him by his
father that Sir Jagadis Chunder has observed "To me his life had been
one of blessing and daily thanksgiving."[2]
HIS EARLY EDUCATION
Little Jagadis received his first lesson in a village pathsala. His father,
who had very advanced views in educational matters, instead of
sending him to an English School, which was then regarded as the only
place for efficient instruction, sent him to the vernacular village school
for his