Girish Chandra Bose was a pioneer agronomist of modern India. Botany was a parent subject of agriculture and as such he could also hone his knowledge of botany as his first degree was in Botany. This necessitated writing of a reliable text book of Indian botany. Girish Bose himself undertook the work. The end product was the book, A Manual of Indian Botany and its vernacular version ‘Udbhid Gnan’. He reminds us of similar works by Sir J. C. Bose. Bose’s constant journey from western theory to Indian specifics is remarkable.

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