Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray

Science

Politics over tea and master of nitrite

Faults are thick where love is thin — the same thing happened in the case of Acharya Prafulla Roy. He studied in Britain. It was there that he made his name as a scientist. Yet he never bowed his head to British imperialism. When the Swadeshi Movement was gaining momentum in the then British India, this pioneer of science raised his voice in opposition to the British. He regularly wrote against them. After ammunition production and indigo cultivation, the British began tea cultivation on the land of this country. And that tea was, of course, exported abroad; but the vast Indian subcontinent itself was a huge market?