For more than three decades the surviving monuments of Vijayanagara have been exhaustively investigated and recorded using traditional methods and also the latest and most accurate

The Jaina school of Indian mathematics had a considerable standing.The school, on the basis of theorization, could be divided into the canonical class and the exclusive class.The treatises of the former contain mathematics along with discussion on Jaina canons while those of the latter are composed exclusively on mathematics.The object of the former was to demonstrate canonical thoughts including on karma and cosmos using mathematics while that of the exclusive class was to provide mathematics education to the contemporary civil life.Besides laukika gaita (worldly mathematics) and lokottara gaita (post-worldly mathematics) the paper also addresses some related issues.

The European practice of health management in the French territories across the world was first established in Pondich?ry, India. From Pondich?ry, health management practice gradually spread to other French colonies within India and elsewhere. A western-medicine based hospital managed by the Jesuits existed in the 1690s in Pondich?ry. L?H?pital Militaire ? a formal and larger establishment situated

We discuss here the cause of sunrise/sunset as referred to in Jñāneśvara's Jñāneśvarī, a 13 th Century translation of Bhagavadgīta into Marathi accompanied with his own explanations.The explanations involve a number of similes which can be used to glean the prevalent views of the society of his time.ryabhaa I in his ryabhaīya in the 5 th century of course held a proposition of earth's rotation as the cause of sunrise/sunset which was criticized and rejected by celebrated mathematicians-astronomers like Varāhamihira and Brahmagupta etc.The concept of Earth's rotation possibly went into oblivion after 6 th -7 th century CE.An attempt has been made how the concept was developed by ryabhaa and nature of its survival among the common people in Maharashtra, apart from learned scholars.

Edward Blyth, one of the early British zoologist spent twenty-two years in Calcutta as a curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society. His work as a taxonomist and field-observer drew the attention of Charles Darwin followed by exchange of letters. Darwin duly acknowledged contribution of Blyth in his books, particularly in Descent of Man. Because of large and varied stores of knowledge, Darwin valued Blyth more than

The paper focuses on the various issues/models relating to nature of diffusion of scientific ideas and practices during the colonial period. In the process, Basalla's three phase model, the character of transmission and absorption of scientific knowledge in the period from center to non-European peripheries, and opinion of different scholars on them are critically examined. Efforts are also made to articulate a new perspective on how local issues developed within certain colonial condition often convincingly contributed to the actual creation of the western science and or medicine.

A recent model for the calendrical tradition of ancient India has been examined with particular reference to yaj–a ritual.

Radhanath Sikdar was the only Indian mathematician who took part in the stupendous effort to finally compute the height of Peak XV within a reasonable limit of error. George Everest had nothing to do with it. Radhanath Sikdar, who was the Chief Computer at the Calcutta Office of the Survey of India (SOI) since 1849, did not participate in any field operation pertaining to the calculation of Peak XV, carried out, with varying success, by a number of people, especially Waugh, Armstrong, Peyton, Hennessey and Nicholson. From 1849 onwards all these field readings were as a matter of routine examined by Radhanath Sikdar at the Calcutta office and his observations sent to Waugh stationed at Dehra Dun. A study of the internal letters and memos of the SOI for the period 1851-1861 shows that the task of bringing order to the hopelessly confused data coming from the field was entrusted with Sikdar. By efficiently applying the method of the Minimum Squares, he minimised the error factor and perhaps showed that the figure would be 29000 feet. Thus, while Radhanath Sikdar was certainly not the “discoverer” of Mount Everest, nor the only person responsible for the final computations, he certainly was the pivot round whom the computations were conducted.

The history of medicine dates back to the very beginning of human existence.Most of the great civilizations had their own systems of medicine.With the help of historical and philosophical underpinnings the authors recognize the influence of Indic civilization, and various Vedic darśanas, including the non-Vedic Buddhist, on the evolution of Indian medicine.This article discusses common threads and differences between Western and Eastern approaches related to science and medicine.The article analyzes possible reasons as to why the roots of holistic approaches embedded in Indian medicine were subjected to the reductionist approach of modern science, and modern medicine.Finally, the authors discuss possible approaches to rediscover the roots, and restore the growth, development, and vitality of Indian medicine, especially of Āyurveda and Yoga.