ABSTRACT
The Indian Psychoanalytical Society was founded in Calcutta on 26 January 1922, long before many European and other Western countries thought of founding a society, and was immediately accepted as a constituent member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Obtaining his medical degree in 1910, Bose began his career as a medical man. But soon his earlier interest in the deeper workings of the mind and hypnotism, a technique that he had mastered, led him to psychiatric practice and to the study of psychology. Psychoanalysis in India had, indeed, an indigenous origin. In 1921 Bose began corresponding with Sigmund Freud and E. Jones. These letters illustrate Bose's bold and original thinking, as well as the distinctive nature of psychoanalysis in India. He was asked to be on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. In some very important respects, Bose's theory differs from Freud's, although on many basic points there is a close correspondence between them.
