Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on 30 November, 1858 at Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. He was brought up in a home committed to pure Indian traditions and culture.

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Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on 30 November, 1858 at Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. He was brought up in a home committed to pure Indian traditions and culture. He got his elementary education from a vernacular school, because his father thought that Bose should learn his own mother tongue. Bengali, before studying a foreign language like English. Bose attended Cambridge after studying physics at Calcutta University. He returned to India in 1884 after completing a B.Sc. degree from Cambridge University.The central hall of the Royal Society in London was jam-packed with famous scientists on May 10, 1901. Everyone seemed to be curious to know how Bose’s experiment will demonstrate that plants have feelings like other living beings and humans.Bose authored two illustrious books; “Response in the Living and Non-living” (1902) and “The Nervous Mechanism of Plants” (1926). Prior to his death in 1937, Bose set up the Bose Institute at Calcutta. He was elected the Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920 for his amazing contributions and achievements.

Answer : The demonstration of plants’ having life and feelings by Jagadish Chandra Bose is the theme of the passage. He studied physics at Calcutta University and completed B.Sc. from Cambridge University. He illustrated the feelings of trees in his to books. He became the fellow of the Royal Society in London.