CONTENTS
Acknowledgement v
Introduction vii
Preface xiii
1. Science
Walter Eugene Clark 3
2. A Conceptual Framework of History of Science in India
A. Rahman 45
3. Scientific Literature in Sanskrit
K.K. Datta 83
4. Evolution of Artistic Traditions in Ancient India with special Reference to the Science of Handicrafts
G. Kuppuram 123
5. Science in Ancient India : Materials for Reopening some old Questions
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya 139
6. Binomial Theorem in Ancient India
Amulya Kumar Bag 191
7. The Notion of Five Elements and its Impetus to the Tratidional Sciences in Ancient India
Anuradha Khanna 201
8. Science and Economy in Ancient India as Gleaned from Early Greek and Latin Literature
Dr. G. Kuppuram 223
9. Sine Table in Ancient India
Amulya Kumar Bag 237
10. A Note on the Sine Table in Ancient India
Amulya Kumar Bag 247
11. Science and Culture in the Indian Context
Abdur Rahman 253
12. Women and Science in India
Amita Das 277
13. Progress of Science and Scientific Methods in the 1970's : A Critical Empericism
G. Kuppuram and K.Kumudamani 287
14. Interaction of West Asian and Central Asian
Science with Indian Tradition
W.H. Abdl 335
15. Interaction of Scientific ideas in the Asian
Culture Area
Irfan Habib 363
16. Science Policy of East India Company in
Indian
Satpal Sangwan 379
17. Science Education in India Under Colonial
Constratints (1792-1857)
Satpal Sangwan 409
18. Science Education in Bengal in the Nineteenth Century
Rama Deb Roy 439
19. Applications of Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Archaeology
K.S. Venkateswarlr and V. Ramshesh 463
20. Incidence of Halogens in Mammalian Skeletons
Sredatha Rao 479
21. Radio Carbon Evidence for Deglaciation in North-Western Himalaya. India
Gurdip Singh and D.p. Agrawal 491
22. Linguistics and Oral Tradition in Indian Subcontinent between the decline of Harappan and the Rise of Magadhan Culture (1500-500 B.C.)
Navjyoti Singh 495
Index 575