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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/9 contains:
44 Correspondence with Abdul Rahman of the Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India about his attendance at the International Congress on the History of Science in the United States and a short visit to Cambridge
45 Letter from Samarandra Nath Sen of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India, about Abdul Rahman's British Council grant to enable him 'to undertake studies in the History of Science at Cambridge under you'
46 Letter from Miss A. M. Everard of The British Council asking for Joseph Needham's comments on funded visit by Samarandra Nath Sen of India and Joseph Needham's reply
47 Joseph Needham's note of Horace Wales, 'The Making of Greater India - A Study in South-East Asian Culture', (London, 1951)
48 Correspondence with Abdul Rahman about his appointment as Head of the History of Science Unit at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Dehli, India and other matters
49 Correspondence with Abdul Rahman of the History of Science Unit of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Dehli, India about conflicting approaches to the study of History of Science in India
50 Letter from Abdul Rahman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Dehli, India, requesting a copy of 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 4, Part 2' and reprints of Joseph Needham papers
51 Letter from Piyo Rattanzi of King's College, Cambridge and attached 'Syllabus IV Year: Problems in the History of Science in India' from the Indian Institute of Technology, Dehli, India
52 Letter from Abdul Rahman of New Dehli, India, requesting a contribution to a Symposium on 'Collaboration Between the Countries of Africa and Asia for the Promotion and Utilization of Science and Technology'
53 Letter from Samarendranath Sen of the National Institute of Sciences of India, Calcutta, about papers for the 'Indian Journal of the History of Science', and other matters
54 Letter from Dorothy Woodman of the Tagore India Centre, London, inviting Joseph Needham to speak at the Britain-India Forum and Joseph Needham's reply
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Correspondence with Abdul Rahman of the History of Science Unit of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Dehli, India about conflicting approaches to the study of History of Science in India
Reference SCC2/9/49
Creator Rahman, Abdul; Needham, Joseph.
Covering Dates Apr. 1963–4 July 1963
Extent and Medium 13 sheets; Paper
Content and context

In his letter Joseph Needham states 'history of India must take into account both the achievements of the period before the Muslim invasions and equally those which occurred afterwards'. The documents also include a copy of Rahman's paper entitled 'History of Science in India - How should it be written?', April, 1963.

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