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Examine the proficiency of the ancient Indians in various crafts, science and mathematics.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Themes in Early Indian Cultural History

Ancient Indian technical achievement rested on a workforce of skilled artisans as much as on a lineage of named mathematicians and astronomers, and the two were more closely linked than a survey organized purely around "science" tends to suggest — the precision that bead-drillers, metal-smiths, and dyers achieved with their hands fed directly into the…

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  • Proficiency in Crafts
  • Proficiency in Science
  • Proficiency in Mathematics
  • The Link Between Craft, Science and Mathematics
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