Unsuccessful FRS nominations from colonial India

In the early decades of the twentieth century, several pioneers of modern science in India were nominated for the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Apart from those who got elected, the others who were not elected also had high reputation among their peers and were usually nominated by British scientists who were aware of their scientific contributions. This paper discusses six Indian scientists who were nominated for FRS during the era 1913–1939 but were not elected: P.C. Ray, D.N. Mallik, Raghavendra Row, N.R. Dhar, S.K. Banerjee, L.K. Ananthakrishna Iyer. In some of the cases, their nomination certificates (available at the Archives of the Royal Society) are the best compact statements of their scientific achievements, and it is not easy to find more information about some of them.