■ “It is often felt that a good biography should tell you enough of the person, set him (or her) in the context of the time and should be readable. This biography excels on all these counts”
—Nitya Anand
■ “This volume indeed is a very well researched monograph....... Prof. Singh is known to be very thorough and punctilious about details, which stem out in this monograph and give such a feeling of authenticity....... It is often felt that a good biography should tell you enough of the person, set him (or her) in the context of the time and should be readable. This biography excels in all these counts.”
—Indian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
■ “Prof. Singh has created a fine monument to Schroff....... Prof. Harkishan Singh writes with consummate smoothness, wisdom and wit..........”
—Indian Journal of History of Science
■ “Singh's biography is successful not just as an enlightening look at a man who helped bring modern education and regulatory methods to a professional field that was lamentably neglected under British rule but also as a study of the institutional and industry-wide policy decisions necessary to establish a modern scientific field in a developing country.”
—Chemical Heritage
■ “ .........the views of Schroff, must be re-looked through this book and must be implemented by different statutory authorities in the country.”
—Current Science
■ “The author is commended for providing authentic source material from where he has been able to estimate Schroff's influence on the growth of pharmaceutical profession, industry, Indian Pharmaceutical Association, the establishment of the Pharmacy Act and Drugs Act in India and the efforts towards the availability of standard medicines in India.”
—Pharma Review