Volume 3
The Social In/and The Scientific

Book Review of Pankaj Sekhsaria’s ‘instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory’

Vasundhara Bhojvaid
Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University, NH91, Tehsil Dadri, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201314.

Published 2023-09-02

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Bhojvaid , V. (2023). Book Review of Pankaj Sekhsaria’s ‘instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory’ . DIALOGUE: Science, Scientists and Society, 3, 1–11. Retrieved from https://dialogue.ias.ac.in/index.php/dialogue/article/view/43

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