Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Jagadish Chandra Bose: The Man and His Time D. P. Sen Gupta -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Early Years and His Father's Influence -- 1.3. Emergence of Western Education in Bengal -- 1.4. British Attitude Towards Higher Education in India -- 1.5. Jagadish's Training in Western Science -- 1.6. Coming Home -- 1.7. Marriage -- 1.8. Turning to Research -- 1.9. Microwaves -- 1.10. Recognition from the British Administrators and the Press -- 1.11. Instant Recognition by the British Scientific Elite and the British Press -- 1.12. Who Invented the Radio? -- 1.13. Guglielmo Marconi -- 1.14. Bose's Aversion to Patenting -- 1.15. Nikola Tesla -- 1.16. Responses of the Living and the Non-Living -- 1.17. Bose's Philosophical Orientation: Did It Influence His Science? -- 1.18. Plant Electrophysiology -- 1.19. Bose and Tagore -- 1.20. Bose and Nivedita -- 1.21. Bose's Contributions to the Growth of Western Science in India -- 1.22. His Last Days -- 1.23. Bose the Writer of Science Fiction and Popular Science -- 1.24. A Chronology -- References -- Chapter 2 The Millimeter Wave Researches of J. C. Bose M. H. Engineer -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.1.1. A small story of knowledge -- 2.1.2. Its application to science -- 2.2. Radio Science Today -- 2.2.1. Millimeter waves in modern life -- 2.2.1.1. At airports -- 2.2.1.2. In scientific research -- 2.2.1.3. At home -- 2.2.1.4. Anywhere -- 2.2.1.5. A small conclusion -- 2.2.2. The common man and radio science -- 2.2.3. Some things that we scarcely know -- 2.2.4. Bridging the gulf and Bose -- 2.3. Before Radio, a Prologue -- 2.3.1. Electromagnetism before Bose: a timeline -- 2.3.1.1. Maxwell's memoir -- 2.3.1.2. After the memoir -- 2.3.2. Radio's pioneers -- 2.3.2.1. G. F. Fitzgerald in 1882 -- 2.3.2.2. Hertz in 1889 -- 2.3.2.3. A chain of investigators in 1889-1894.

2.4. Radio Science, an Interlude -- 2.5. Detecting Radio Waves in the Early 1890s -- 2.6. Bose's Decisive Year -- 2.6.1. Bose's early researches -- 2.6.2. At the Royal Institution, London in 1897 -- 2.6.2.1. An assessment -- 2.6.3. Further developments -- 2.6.3.1. 1897 -- 2.6.3.2. 1898 -- 2.6.4. An assessment -- 2.7. Bose's Work on Detectors -- 2.7.1. Realizing that good communication needs sensitive detectors, Bose converted the "coherers", which were a heap of metal filings in loose contact between two metal electrodes, into delicate "spiral spring coherers" (see Fig. 14) -- 2.7.2. An assessment -- 2.8. Conclusion -- 2.9. Bose's Legacy -- References -- Chapter 3 Reflections on the Many-in-One: J. C. Bose and the Roots of Plant Neurobiology V. A. Shepherd -- 3.1. Abstract -- 3.2. Prologue -- 3.3. Introduction -- 3.4. J. C. Bose - A Philosophy of Life -- 3.4.1. From semi-conductors to sensitive plants -- 3.4.2. Response in the living and the non-living -- 3.4.3. On vegetable electricity: the making of a maverick -- 3.4.4. Nineteenth century mechanistic materialism and vitalism -- 3.4.5. The mechanistic materialist position on animal electricity -- 3.4.6. J. C. Bose and western process philosophy -- 3.4.7. Whitehead's process philosophy -- 3.4.8. A phenomenology of plant mechano-perception -- 3.5. Plant Neurobiology Today -- 3.5.1. Towards plant neurobiology -- 3.5.2. Plant intelligence and the capacity for learning -- 3.5.3. Root apex as the "plant brain" -- 3.5.4. The vascular tissues, phloem and xylem, as plant neurons -- 3.5.5. Auxin as a plant neurotransmitter -- 3.5.6. Three kinds of neural pathways -- 3.5.7. Sophisticated plant behaviors and communication -- 3.5.8. Living systems theory -- 3.6. J. C. Bose and the Roots of Plant Neurobiology.

3.6.1. All plants utilise a phloem-based nervous system to co-ordinate their responses to the perceived world -- 3.6.1.1. Confirmation of the Mimosa work -- 3.6.2. All plants possess an electromechanical pulse -- 3.6.2.1. Confirmation of the Desmodium work -- 3.6.2.2. The existence of a hydro-electrochemical pulse in plants -- 3.6.2.3. The ascent of sap -- 3.6.3. Like animals, plants have receptors for stimuli, conductors (nerves), which electrically code and propagate the stimulus, and effectors, or terminal motor organs -- 3.6.4. Plants have the capacity for learning and remembering, and exhibit a kind of intelligence -- 3.7. Conclusion -- 3.8. Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- References -- About The Authors -- Index.