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Pride of India
Pride of India
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Description
Pages: 208 (Throughout Color Illustrations)
About the Book
Ancient Indian has always been acclaimed for literature, philosophy, and allied branches of knowledge. But the significant strides they had made in the fields of science and technology have remained relatively unknown.
Today, the scientific literature in Samskrit available to us is vast and varied, covering subjects as diverse as alchemy and astronomy mathematics and metallurgy, gemology and zoology, and many more. Even so several questions have been raise4d as to their antiquity and authenticity. This perhaps is due to a lack of proper understanding of India’s cultural ethos by historians and often a narrow interpretation of ancient Indian manuscripts.
Pride of India brings these issues to light, while attempting to answer them in a manner that will stand the test of dispassionate, scientific scrutiny. It is hoped that this new perspective will give a new thrust and dimension to scholars and scientists in their journey into India’s past and help derive full benefits of her scientific heritage.
Preface
Why pride of India?
The twentieth century has seen unprecedented development in knowledge and technology. Car to spacecraft all have been invented and commercialized in the lifetime of a person. At the end of this epochal growth, humanity is at crossroads.
• The green revolution high yielding varieties of seeds, chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides was the blessing which saved India from ruinous famines and equally ruinous food import bills in the 1960s. Today, the best brains in agriculture and chemical technology, including some who were involved in the green revolution, are searching desperately for ways and means of restoring th
Product details
- Languages:
- Published: English
- Publisher:
- Samskrita Bharati
- Publication Date:
- 2006-04-01
- Weight:
- 1080 g
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