Though there remain essential questions concerning the age of Indian literature, a timeframe of sophisticated ideas from about 1500 B.C. indicates that Indian astronomy and physical thought were on a par with that of Babylonia and Egypt. Some...

In 1871 the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, the first of two centers for modern science in India, was founded to give young Indians the opportunity, discouraged by the colonial British government, to conduct laboratory research. The...

Science and technology in ancient India covered many major branches of human knowledge and activities, including mathematics, astronomy and physics, metallurgy, medical science and surgery, fine arts, mechanical and production technology, civil...

I certainly had to hand it to Reggie, he was light on his feet. And for 90 straight minutes, those feet probed purposefully all over my front and back sides as I lay--naked, spread-eagled and greased with fresh coconut oil--on the floor of a...

The following historical and philological study traces the science of respiration and the doctrine of the bodily winds through ancient Indian religious and technical literature. Basic notions about respiration and bodily winds appear in the literature of the vedic samhitas and brahmanas. By the...