History of Science and Technology

(b. 1952) graduated in Science, Post graduate in A.I.H.C& Archaeology, again graduated in Library Science from B.H.U. He started his career from I.T. Uni Library in 1976 and presently (since july, 2010) in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering working on the post of Professional Assistant. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1998. He has published a Book entitled 'History of Science and Technology' in 2006 and contributed several article in this area which were published in the Journal of Numismatic society of India and this book entitled "Ancient Indian Coin and their Technology" is expected to give and exciting direction in the reconstruction of Ancient Indian Metal Tehnology for the younger generation and meet the research gulf between the Archaeologist and Metallurgist together with the Forth coming books entitled "puratatva" (In Hindi) and' Ancient Indian coinage" of the author. In the obsence of literary facts of thoughts one of the backbone cultural relics (coins) of Indus, named our country "Bharat" now in intradisciplinary environment requires a metallurgical attention for the archaeologists. This work in the direction of kautilya's energy saving alloy of the earliest punch marked coins (600 B.C. to 3-4th Century A.D.) produced a broad cultural, Social, political, economic as well as skillful metallurgical views.