I am a student of Indology, and have recently completed a book on the
subject "INDIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CULTURE".
I invite you to visit the home page for the book:
http://members.tripod.com/~sudbee/index.html
This book would satisfy the urge of Indologists, NRIs who have distanced
themselves from their roots and others who would like to know about the
advances made in ancient India in the fields of science and technology and
their transmission the world over.
The arguments marshalled in this book draw from irrefutable sources like
current western dictionaries, Encyclopedia Britannica, observations of
ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Arab and Chinese travellers. The advances
made by Indians in ancient times have been noted and praised by these
foreign travellers.
This book is richly illustrated with over 100 photographs which give you
a visual feast of the various aspects of Indian culture. The book began
as a quest for knowing the foundations on which was built the edifice of
India's glorious past. The book answers questions like:
- what attracted thousands of students from across the globe to ancient
Indian universities like Nalanda and Takshashila?
- to what extent was science all over the world influenced by the masterly
treatises produced by ancient Indian scholars like Aryabhatta,
Bramhagupta, Varahamihira, Bhaskaracharya, etc.
- why did the English words, like Cash, Jute, Sugar, etc., originate in
Sanskrit and find their way into many other western languages? ( A fact
supported by the Oxford and Collins Dictionaries.)
- why was India romanticized as a land where rivers flowed with milk and
honey?
The book talks of advances made in ancient India in Mechanical
Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics,
Astronomy, Medical Science, Shipbuilding and Navigation, Fine Arts, etc.
This book gives enough convincing material for a student of Indian culture
to believe that India has not always been a nation dependent on other
nations, has not always been ruled by aliens, and has not always borrowed
everything from foreign sources.
My inspiration for working on this subject came from the curriculum
through which I had my education. As a student the Indian history to which
I was exposed spoke mostly to the history of foreign invasions,
treacheries, defeats, foreign conquest and subjugation, etc. I wanted to
rediscover for myself the foundations of the ancient culture of India.
This made me a student of Indology, and have been working on this subject
since 1980.
I invite you visit the following site:
http://members.tripod.com/~sudbee/index.html
If you find this site to be useful to Indians and Indologists, please do
refer it to your friends.
Libraries in Universities having Indology/Sanskrit as a subject would find
this book relevant and useful. For students the book is discounted price
is $ 7 plus postage, the market price is $35.
For my future research, I am also looking for more info on this subject.
Please let me know if there are any useful sites on the history science
and technology especially in the context of Ancient India.
I look forward to hearing from you
Regards
Sudheer Birodkar
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