International Conference On Contributions Of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray As a Chemist and Freedom Fighter

India has had a long history of scientific temperament, as evidenced by the huge wealth of information enshrined in its ancient scriptures. "We have reasons to believe that ancient India was the cradle of Mathematical sciences" said Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, the doyen of modern chemical science and technology in India. Acharya's critically acclaimed book "A History of Hindu Chemistry" details India’s scientific past and was in response to French Chemist Berthelot’s book on history of chemistry, which ignored the contribution of Indians in the field of Chemistry through the centuries. Despite being an academician and researcher, Acharya Ray established India’s first pharmaceutical industry, The Bengal Chemicals with the mission to establish a swadeshi enterprise and give employment to Indians. There are many facets to understand about the life of Acharya Ray and this conference wishes to provide a platform to revisit the contributions of P C Ray, who worked tirelessly to revive our scientific tradition in the pre-independence British era.