TY - GEN AU - Handa, O. C TI - Reflections on the History of Indian Science and Technology SN - 9788782748392 U1 - 509.54 HAN PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Pentagon Press KW - Science KW - Technology KW - India KW - Civilization N2 - Motivated by the urge to make the achievements of Indian traditional knowledge system (ITKS) available to the readers the world-over, the US-based Infinity Foundation, headed by Rajiv Malhotra conceived an ambitious project: The History of Indian Science and Technology (HIST), with the objective to make available to the common readers the well-researched and comprehensive literature on the achievements that India and the Indian cultural diaspora made in the past. However, that remained suppressed or ill-represented under the systematic colonial strategy. The objective is not to find fault with the colonial system for all those failings, but to discover objectively those precious nuggets of that knowledge system for the benefit of common readers in the simple diction, without technical jargon and academic stiffness, so that ER -