Publisher's Synopsis
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray was an eminent Bengali chemist, academician and entrepreneur and the father of Chemistry in modern India. The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured his life and work with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company. He earned his D.Sc at Edinburgh University in 1887. He received an honorary D.Sc. degree from Durham University in 1912, and another from Dacca University (now Dhaka University) in 1936. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1911. He was honorary fellow of the Chemical Society and Deutsche Akademie, Munich. He was president of the 1920 session of the Indian Science Congress. He is the author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of Sixteenth Century (1902). He also wrote an account of British rule in India in 1885, which has been largely overlooked. This edition of Roy's India: Before and After the Mutiny is an authoritative reprint of the first edition of the book which transports the readers from the time of Lord Clive and Warren Hastings to the progress of Western Education and its effect in India. Altogether this book is a substantial and apt history of the 1857 Indian Mutiny.
