General Relativity in Post Independence India

Naresh Dadhich
(Submitted on 3 Nov 2015)

The most outstanding contribution to general relativity in this era came in 1953 (published in 1955 \cite{akr}) in the form of the Raychaudhri equation. It is in 1960s that the observations began to confront the eupherial theory and thus began exploration of GR as a legitimate physical theory in right earnest. The remarkable discoveries of cosmic microwave background radiation, quasars, rotating Kerr black hole and the powerful singularity theorems heralded a new canvas of relativistic astrophysics and cosmology. I would attempt to give a brief account of Indian participation in these exciting times.

Comments: 16 pages, latex
Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics – Theory (hep-th)
Cite as: arXiv:1511.02241 [physics.hist-ph] (or arXiv:1511.02241v1 [physics.hist-ph] for this version)
Submission history
From: Naresh Dadhich
[v1] Tue, 3 Nov 2015 09:10:50 GMT (20kb)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02241