Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Concept and taxonomy of knowledge: a note/Kapil Kapoor. 2. Social background and role of science in ancient in ancient civilization: Indic, Iranic Semitic and Hellenic/Rajnikant Pant. 3. Geometry of the Sulba-Sutras/Mohan Gupta. 4. The astronomy of five Siddhantas/Mohan Gupta. 5. Ancient Indian mathematics/S. Balachandra Rao. 6. Ancient Indian astronomy/S. Balachandra Rao. 7. Hisab Al-Hind/Ghan Shyam Pandey. 8. Acharya Varahmihir: his life and time/Ghan Shyam Pandey. 9. Anatomy and surgery in Ayurveda/Manoranjan Sahu. 10. Therapeutic use of aromatic products in ancient Indian cosmetics and perfumes/Susmita Pande. 11. Scientific temper of Upanisadic spirituality/Atul Kumar Sinha.12. Bhartrhari as a grammarian and philosopher/Banamali Biswal. 13. Vaisesika system/Biswambhar Pahi. 14. Urbanization in the Kushan empire/V.C. Srivastava. 15. Origin and development of the schools of Abhidhamma with special reference to Theravada school of Abhidhamma/Ravindra Panth. 16. Early evidence of female figures, music and dance/Kapila Vatsyayan. 17. The rise of Christianity up to emperor constantine/Shilanand Hemraj. 18. Meeting of art traditions : Gandhara and Mathura up to AD 600/R.N. Misra. 19. India from Fourth Century BC to Third century AD: cultural and artistic links with Greece central and West Asia/Sampa Biswas. Index. The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way. These volumes, in spite of their unitary look, recognize the difference between the areas of material civilizations and those of ideational culture. The Project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ideologically identical in their commitments. In fact contributions are made by different scholars with different ideological persuasions and methodological approaches. The Project is marked by what may be called methodological pluralism. In spite of its primarily historical character, this Project, both in its conceptualization and execution, has been shaped by scholars drawn from different disciplines. It is for the first time that an endeavour of such a unique and comprehensive character has been undertaken to study critically a major world civilization like India. The current accounts of the history of civilization do not generally appear to give adequate importance to non western civilizations. Works like Needham's Science and Civilization in China are rare. The accounts of Indic civilization on the other hand have either neglected the factor of civilizational contacts or represented them in an inadequate manner. Few serious attempts have been made to gain an insight into human civilization in all its aspects through the comparative historical and integrated studies. Historical research necessarily tied to the study of the source material is still in the process of rising to the level of universal history. Volume, I, The Dawn and Development of Indian Civilization comprises six parts. Parts 4 and 5 are intended to review the history of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization in the context of civilizational contacts with the Iranic, Semitic and Hellenic worlds and comparable developments in them. Appropriately entitled A Golden Chain of Civilizations, Part 4 covers the period upto c.600 BC. Part 5 covers the period from c.600 BC to AD 600 in two sections-section I: Cultural contacts and movements, and section 2: Science, philosophy and culture. (jacket). Seller Inventory # 109197

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