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Trace the scientific & technological developments in India up to c. A.D. 750.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Themes in Early Indian Cultural History

Traced across time rather than by subject, Indian science does not appear as a static inheritance but as a trajectory that accelerates sharply — from ritual-driven proto-science in the Vedic period, through a Mauryan phase of applied statecraft technology, to a genuine efflorescence under the Guptas, before consolidating in the post-Gupta and Harsha-era centuries into…

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  • The Vedic Foundations: Proto-Science Embedded in Ritual
  • The Mauryan Phase: Applied Metallurgy and Statecraft Technology
  • The Gupta Peak: Aryabhata, Varahamihira and Brahmagupta
  • Post-Gupta Continuation to Harsha and Beyond

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