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Homi K. Bhabha

Indian critical theorist (born 1949)

This article is about the critical theorist. For the physicist, see Homi J. Bhabha.

Homi K. Bhabha

Born (1949-11-01) 1 November 1949 (age 75)

Bombay, Province of Bombay, Dominion of India
(now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)

SpouseJacqueline Bhabha
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Mumbai (BA)
Christ Church, Oxford (MA, M.Phil., D.Phil.)
School or traditionPost-colonial theory
Post-structuralism
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex
Princeton University
Harvard University
Main interestsHistory of ideas, Literature
Notable ideasHybridity as a strategy of the suppressed against their suppressors, mimicry as a strategy of colonial subjection, Third Space, postcolonial "enunciative" present[1]

Homi Kharshedji Bhabha (; born 1 November 1949) is an Indian scholar and critical theorist. He is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies, and has developed a numb

Homi J. Bhabha

Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)

This article is about the physicist. For the critical theorist, see Homi K. Bhabha.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI,[3]FASc,[1]FRS[4](30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone to the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. He was the first chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy. By supporting space science projects which initially derived their funding from the AEC, he played an important role in the birth of the Indian space programme.

Bhabha was awarded the Adams Prize (1942) and Padma Bhushan (1954), and nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physic

Life and work of the great Visionary, Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha was born in Bombay on October 30, 1909 to Jehangir and Meherbai Bhabha. Jehangir Bhabha had grown up in Bangalore and was educated at Oxford. After receiving his training as a lawyer in England, Jehangir started working in Mysore where he joined the judicial service of the state. He married Meherbai, daughter of Bhikaji Framji Pandey and granddaughter of the renowned philanthropist, Dinshaw Petit of Bombay. After marriage, the couple moved to Bombay, the first commercial city of British India where young Bhabha spent his childhood.

Homi was named after his paternal grandfather, Hormusji Bhabha, Inspector General of Education in Mysore.

Homi with his parents, grandfather and Aunt Meherbai Tata

Homi’s paternal aunt, also Meherbai, was married to Dorab Tata, the elder son of the pioneer of Indian industry, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata. Here, at the Tatas’ ancestral home, the commercial world of his industrialist uncle revealed itself to the young Homi. 

But he also observed the deep bonds that the Ta

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