The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose

The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose - Hardcover

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The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose - Hardcover

The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose - Hardcover

by Jagadish Chandra Bose
$28.00
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Book Overview

by Jagadish Chandra Bose (Author), Sumana Roy (Translator)

An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication

Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century ago. Bose suggested that plants had their own vocabulary, an "unvoiced life" that he recorded as a "script" with a crescograph, a device that measured how plants respond to each other and their environments.

Inviting readers into the "resounding silence of the green plant kingdom," he described an underlying unity beneath the multiplicity of phenomena, and a world in which "endless music is sung everywhere." Dismissed as idiosyncratic and unscientific when he was alive, Bose provocatively challenged the hierarchy of living beings, which relegated plants to the bottom, and created a mesmerizing body of work on nonhuman intelligence.

Through her lyrical translations from Bose's essay collection Abyakta ("The Unsaid"; 1922), Sumana Roy reveals the revolutionary character of his mind, as poetic and philosophical as it was scientific.

Author Biography

Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a pioneer in radio waves, electromagnetism, and plant science. His books published in English include Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902) and The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926). Sumana Roy is the author of How I Became a Tree, Provincials, and Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal, among other books.

Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: March 17, 2026
ISBN9780300278408
Author Jagadish Chandra Bose
PublisherYale University Press
GenreHobbies & interests, Education, and Literature
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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