This book is about the contribution of India to the thoughts, cultures and traditions of the world. The debt owed by the west to other civilisations and to India in particular, goes back to the earliest epoch of the 'Western' scientific tradition, the age of the classical Greeks and continued until the dawn of the modern era, the renaissance when Europe was awakening from its Dark Ages. This book is a humble attempt to put together some of the aspects of ...
The book vividly describes the outgoing approach of the Indians in the past and their interaction with different countries and peoples-and their scholarship. In the process, it demolishes several myths associated with the historical Indian way of life. The reality will prove to be an eye-opener to people living outside the country and desirous of knowing the role of India in the growth of human mid and world civilization. Nearer home, the book will help in ...