The History of India begins with the birth of the Indus Valley Civilization, more precisely known as Harappan Civilization. It flourished around 2,500 BC, in the western part of South Asia, what today is Pakistan and Western India. The Indus Valley was home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. Nothing was known about this civilization till 1920s when the Archaeological Department of India carried out excavations in the Indus valley wherein the ruins of the two old cities, viz. Mohenjodaro and Harappa were unearthed. The ruins of buildings and other things like household articles, weapons of war, gold and silver ornaments, seals, toys, pottery wares, etc., show that some four to five thousand years ago a highly developed Civilization flourished in this region.
The Indus valley civilization was basically an urban civilization and the people lived in well-planned and well-built towns, which were also the centers for trade. The ruins of Mohenjodaro and Harappa show that these were magnificent merchant cities-well planned, scientifically laid, and well looked after. They had wide roads and a well-developed drainage system. The houses were made of baked bricks and had two or more storeys.
The highly civilized Harappans knew the art of growing cereals, and wheat and barley constituted their staple food. They consumed vegetables and fruits and ate mutton, pork and eggs as well. Evidences also show that they wore cotton as well as woollen garments. By 1500 BC, the Harappan culture came to an end. Among various causes ascribed to the decay of Indus Valley Civilization are the recurrent floods and other natural causes like earthquake, etc.
Let’s revisit Indian civilization. We are told that Indian Culture impacted all lands to it North, South and East, but did not step even 1 step forward towards West outside Afghanistan. We will begin our understanding from ChandraGupta’s Dynasty which began much earlier than 300 B.C.E. With this came into existence differentiation of classes among people based on profession.
The Vedic caste system, kept the lower classes to their positions without givingthem access to educationwhich lead to poverty in India and decline. There was a transfer of wealth from India into Western Europe. India was a very rich nation in the past.Dr. Srini Kalyanaraman has been working on the wealth of ancient India, was based on metal works. His research shows, how there was a trade from Mekong Valley in Vietnam to Israel. They were the ones, who invented bronze.
Next, the aspirations of today’s generation have changed completely where they focus on luxury living where money goes to all these various people. 33% of people earlier were artisans like craftsmen, goldsmith etc who produced every group of interest for the economy compelling it to pop up meaning very high GDP.
After East India Company came to India and they left a lot of senses on the schools and changes were visible. people in that village would give a portion of the produce every year to the villagetemple and in return the priests would teach their children, the farmers children etc. This was the model that is used in ancient India.British took inspiration fromwhite people who believed they are God's mandate to civilize the world and controland we Indians got boycotted. Taxes levied were sky-high, the farmer could no longer give a portionof his produce to the temple. So, the learning in addition, collapsed in India and the Brahmin was all out of a job. Later, Industrial Revolution ramped up and the finished goods from abroadwere forced upon Indians. British education system collapse traditional learning, disconnected people from roots.
In this talk, the speaker highlights the many contributions by ancient Indic scientists and thinkers over vast periods of time, and show the understated but dramatic impact of those ideas both in the ancient world, and in contemporary times. Using selected examples from technology, medicine, music, math, astronomy and grammar, the speaker traces back modern knowledge systems to their roots in Indic knowledge, and discuss the many routes for Indic knowledge transmission.
The speaker concludes by tracing the decline and death of the Indic knowledge tradition, and why it is imperative for an educated, cultured Indic person to revive and reconnect with that tradition.
In this talk, the speaker highlights the many contributions by ancient Indic scientists and thinkers over vast periods of time, and show the understated but dramatic impact of those ideas both in the ancient world, and in contemporary times. Using selected examples from technology, medicine, music, math, astronomy and grammar, the speaker traces back modern knowledge systems to their roots in Indic knowledge, and discuss the many routes for Indic knowledge transmission. The speaker concludes by tracing the decline and death of the Indic knowledge tradition, and why it is imperative for an educated, cultured Indic person to revive and reconnect with that tradition.
In this talk, the speaker highlights the many contributions by ancient Indic scientists and thinkers over vast periods of time, and show the understated but dramatic impact of those ideas both in the ancient world, and in contemporary times. Using selected examples from technology, medicine, music, math, astronomy and grammar, the speaker traces back modern knowledge systems to their roots in Indic knowledge, and discuss the many routes for Indic knowledge transmission.
The speaker concludes by tracing the decline and death of the Indic knowledge tradition, and why it is imperative for an educated, cultured Indic person to revive and reconnect with that tradition.
In this talk, the speaker highlights the many contributions by ancient Indic scientists and thinkers over vast periods of time, and show the understated but dramatic impact of those ideas both in the ancient world, and in contemporary times. Using selected examples from technology, medicine, music, math, astronomy and grammar, the speaker traces back modern knowledge systems to their roots in Indic knowledge, and discuss the many routes for Indic knowledge transmission.
The speaker concludes by tracing the decline and death of the Indic knowledge tradition, and why it is imperative for an educated, cultured Indic person to revive and reconnect with that tradition.
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