India's New Research Foundation and Nehru's Science Legacy

India has created a new organization called the Anusandhan National Research Foundation to give money to universities and labs for scientific research.

This group aims to raise about $6 billion over five years, with most of the money coming from companies and private donors instead of the government.

Currently, the government provides most of the funding for research in India, but this new plan wants to change that.

A long time ago, a man named Ward Morehouse wrote a big book about how science was organized in India when Jawaharlal Nehru was the leader.

He talked about how the government controlled science and the challenges of building strong science institutions.

Even though the book was never published, its ideas are still important today.

India is now trying to make its science more competitive globally, and this new research foundation is part of that effort.

Reading Morehouse's work can help us understand the problems and possibilities of science in India today.