<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mr. Monteiro said that considering the fact that growth of communalism was one of the major problems confronting society today, undoubtedly science had to play a role by spreading scientific temper among people.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Create the problem and then offer an alien essence as the solution.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand (1907-1966)
Prof. D. D. Kosambi (as he was usually known) was an outstanding intellectual with a vast range of interests and expertise.
<b>His father was an eminent scholar of Buddhism. </b>After some initial schooling in India and then abroad, <b>young Kosambi was trained in Mathematics, History and Languages at the Harvard University, where his father had taken up a teaching assignment. </b>Subsequently he made his mark as a mathematician, statistician, geneticist, numismatist, Indologist, historian and political theorist and commentator â all rolled into one. He was also a polyglot and widely travelled.
<b>Prof. Kosambi is, however, best known as the pioneering, and arguably the most eminent, Marxist to apply Historical Materialism to the analysis of ancient Indian civilisations and societies.
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His contributions as a truly âindependentâ and outstanding Marxist analyst of contemporary India â both pre-Independence and post-Independence, have, however, gone somewhat unnoticed. His role as a prominent peace-activist, long before peace-activism gained any significant currency in India, drawing attention to the uniqueness of nuclear threat to the whole of humanity also deserves far greater attention. Of his numerous publications, the following are the more important ones dealing with his social concerns and engagement with Indian history and contemporary realities:
  * Science Society and Peace
  * An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
  * History and Society: Problems of Interpretations
  * The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline
  * Myth and Reality: Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture
  * Exasperating Essays: Exercise in the Dialectical Method
  * Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Create the problem and then offer an alien essence as the solution.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand (1907-1966)
Prof. D. D. Kosambi (as he was usually known) was an outstanding intellectual with a vast range of interests and expertise.
<b>His father was an eminent scholar of Buddhism. </b>After some initial schooling in India and then abroad, <b>young Kosambi was trained in Mathematics, History and Languages at the Harvard University, where his father had taken up a teaching assignment. </b>Subsequently he made his mark as a mathematician, statistician, geneticist, numismatist, Indologist, historian and political theorist and commentator â all rolled into one. He was also a polyglot and widely travelled.
<b>Prof. Kosambi is, however, best known as the pioneering, and arguably the most eminent, Marxist to apply Historical Materialism to the analysis of ancient Indian civilisations and societies.
</b>
His contributions as a truly âindependentâ and outstanding Marxist analyst of contemporary India â both pre-Independence and post-Independence, have, however, gone somewhat unnoticed. His role as a prominent peace-activist, long before peace-activism gained any significant currency in India, drawing attention to the uniqueness of nuclear threat to the whole of humanity also deserves far greater attention. Of his numerous publications, the following are the more important ones dealing with his social concerns and engagement with Indian history and contemporary realities:
  * Science Society and Peace
  * An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
  * History and Society: Problems of Interpretations
  * The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline
  * Myth and Reality: Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture
  * Exasperating Essays: Exercise in the Dialectical Method
  * Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->