Mahendralal Sarkar

The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science gives Sarkar's educational ambition a continuing physical and intellectual home. Established in Calcutta in 1876, it sought to make scientific work possible through an Indian-supported institution in a colonial setting. Fundraising and the participation of a wider community were essential to that project. Follow its development beyond the founder to see how a place initially built around an aspiration could become a setting for later generations of research.