Talk:Śrī Jagadīśa Candra Boṣa (1858–1937) proved that Plants have Life
By Vishal Agarwal
Hindus were the earliest people to hold the belief that plants are living beings. For many centuries, much of the rest of the world regarded plants as non-living entities. This ancient Hindu insight later inspired the pioneering scientist Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose to develop an instrument called the Crescograph.
Born in Bikrampur (near present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh), Jagadish Chandra Bose is regarded as the father of experimental science in India. He was the first person from the Indian subcontinent to receive an American patent, and the IEEE, the leading global organization for electrical and electronic engineering, honors him as one of the founding figures of radio science.
Among his most remarkable inventions was the Crescograph, an instrument that could detect and measure plant responses to external stimuli. Through this innovation, Bose provided scientific evidence supporting the ancient Hindu understanding that plants are living organisms capable of reacting to their environment. His experiments further showed that plants experience distress and tremors when injured, bridging traditional wisdom and modern scientific discovery.