This book, as its title suggests, is about Subhankari--an almost forgotten tradition of computation prevailing in precolonial Bengal. It deals with quite a number of things : the science and art of Subhankari computation, the nature of the prevailing units of measure and currency, the teaching of computation in schools, the non-utilitarian aspects of Subhankari, the social and cultural context of Subhankari and how the latter incorporated earlier Indian ...
