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Jhum: An indigenous method of cultivation and British attitude towards it in Colonial Assam Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Geetashree Singh
The paper attempts to study the Indigenous method of jhum, or shifting cultivation, and British attitude towards it. It was a popular method of cultivation not only in Colonial Assam but also in various parts of the country. Though jhum has been practiced for several millennia and found to be suitable for the climate of Assam, the British government tried to ban this form of cultivation for their interest
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Historical account of entomophagy among the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh: Current status and future trends Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Nending Muni, Pompi Bhadra, Jharna Chakravorty
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Dr. Suresh Prasad Sarbadhikari (1866–1921): A legendary surgeon and a Bengali pioneer of ovariotomy Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Indranil Sanyal
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Archiving the work of Dr. Subhas Mukherjee: The architect of India’s test tube baby Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Srabani Mukherjee, Rajvi Mehta
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Pathway to Devasthal astronomical observatory, ARIES Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ram Sagar, Gopal-Krishna
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Relevance of Ayurvedic prakṛti in literary studies with special reference to major characters of Kālidāsa’s dramas Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2024-02-26 K. R. Bhavana
Ayurveda narrates the concept of prakṛti as a framework to understand human behaviour. Prakṛti determines an individual’s physical, physiological, and mental disposition. The three doṣas,vāta, pitta, and kapha, form the basis of the body and mind. The dominance of one or two of these influences the physical and mental makeup of the individual. The lead characters of Kālidāsa’s dramas are studied and
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Construction and application of third diagonal in cyclic quadrilaterals by Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Prasad A. Jawalgekar, D. G. Sooryanarayan, K. Ramasubramanian
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Equinoctial full moon of the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa and the nakṣatra solar zodiac starting from summer solstice Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-21 R. N. Iyengar, Sunder Chakravarty
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The practice of folk medicine by the indigenous people of Sundarbans: A historical analysis Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Rup Kumar Barman
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Origin, introduction, and cultural history of capsicum in India Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-03 N. C. Shah
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Restoration and conservation of Sāncipāt manuscripts of Assam for preserving in ordinary rural setup Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Asadulla Asraf Ali, Robin Kumar Dutta
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Composition and characterisation of ancient lime mortar of Gopal Krishna temple, Alandi, India Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Sarvesh Singh, Manager Singh, P. D. Sabale
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Use of the concept of derivative in the computation of vyatīpāta in two Kerala texts Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Venketeswara Pai R., M. S. Sriram
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Mahādevī-sāriṇī: A unique table providing true longitudes of planets Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-09-25 B. S. Shubha, B. S. Shylaja
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Geometry of prāṇakalāntara in the Lagnaprakaraṇa Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Nagakiran Yelluru, Aditya Kolachana
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Advent, appropriation, and aesthetics of electric light in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, (1900–1920) Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Baasit Abubakr, Saradindu Bhaduri
At the start of the twentieth century, Jammu and Kashmir witnessed an energy transition in its urban centres of Srinagar and Jammu, where electric lights entered the illumination mix along with the already existing oil lamps. They did not simply replace the oil-lit lamps as access to electric lighting was strictly determined on colonial, racial, and class lines. The electric lights also provided an
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A study of diseases and deaths in colonial Bihar in twentieth century Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Sudhanshu Kumar Jha, Shubham
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Mountains of corpses: the deadliest attack of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in the city of Calcutta Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Saumitra Basu
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Development of amateur astronomy in independent India with special reference to West Bengal: A historical study Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Sabyasachi Chatterjee
The study of the development of amateur astronomy in independent India is an unexplored research arena. Though some articles have been published, detailed research on the theme is badly needed. This research project humbly attempts to explore the subject and tries to unearth the history of multifaceted initiatives to make astronomy popular through non-professional activities. It tries to trace the
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Colonialism, nationalism and reconstruction of history of science: the case of Goa Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Nagendra Rao
This paper argues that nationalist ideology influenced the writings of Goan elites who joined their Indian counterparts. The latter glorified the pre-modern history, literature, art, and architecture of India as a response to the colonial assertions of its superiority. In the case of Goa, the colonial authorities propounded the concept of Goa Dourada, or golden Goa under Portuguese rule. The local
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Recursion and iteration in combinatorics of Chandaśśāstra Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Amba Kulkarni
Piṅgaḷa in his book on Chandaśśāstra, a text related to the description and analysis of meters in poetic work, describes algorithms that deal with Combinatorial Mathematics and are tail-recursive in nature. Later after almost a millennium in around 800 CE, Kedāra Bhaṭṭa provides iterative algorithms for the same operations. Another major difference between the two works is stylistic. Piṅgaḷa uses a
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The history of geographical surveys in India during the British period Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-07-13 C. S. Meenakshi
This study focuses on the history of Geographical surveys in India during the British period. Mainly three types of geographical surveys were conducted in British India during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, namely the Great Trigonometrical survey, Revenue survey and Topographical survey. Origin and background of British geographical Surveys, The science of Great Trignometrical survey, experiences
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Planetary nodes and apses in the Sūrya-Siddhānta Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Anil Narayanan, Nilesh Oak
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Technologies of transportation: road, bridge and boat construction in colonial Punjab Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Mandakini Thakur
The road and river transport have laid the foundations of human settlements since ancient times. After annexing Punjab in 1849, the British brought western technologies in road and river transportation for better movement of people and material for consolidation of their rule. The measures included building of roads, bridges and navigation through steam vessels. This paper gives a brief description
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A brief study on history and evolution of time Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Udhaya Sankar Ganesamoorthy, Chinnadurai Ganesa Moorthy
Time is a phenomenon of periodic changes in our Earth, solar system, and universe. In our Earth, a day has 24 h; 1 h has 60 min and 1 min has 60 s. These all are well known things. One systematic arrangement of time in history is based upon base 60 or Sexagesimal system. If time of Earth is based on the angle of inclination 60° of the plane for solar system with the plane for Milky Way, then the resultant
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Institutionalization of agricultural education in the nineteenth century colonial India: its imperatives and models Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Prakrati Bhargava
The industrializing nations in the nineteenth century witnessed the expansion of the dominion of new knowledge which was formally produced within institutional sites such as universities, laboratories, academic societies, colleges, museums and many more. These institutional forms were instrumental in the production and dissemination of this knowledge. This new knowledge form not only generated new
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Revisiting the traditional medicine of the tribals in the Jungle Mahals, 1947–2000 Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Nirmal Kumar Mahato
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Calculation for ‘chain-reduction’ in the Triśatībhāṣya Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Taro Tokutake
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Indigenous poison healing traditions in Kerala Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Y. Srinivasa Rao, Sindhu Thomas
Prior to the emergence of modern medicine as a universal method for all diseases across cultures, and geography—specific methods of treatment existed in various regions. It is not to argue here that these cultural particularities in the treatment of diseases totally disappeared. Under the pressure of modern medicine, pre-modern methods reformed, reformulated and re-emerged as a hybrid system to survive
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An intellectual history of P.C. Ray’s papers on the nitrites of mercury Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Subrata Dasgupta
Prafulla Chandra Ray’s contribution to the birth and development of an ‘Indian school of chemistry’ is well documented. But much of this recognition is situated in the realm of the social history of science. My aim in this essay is to view Ray through the lens of intellectual history and, above all, to shed fresh light on his actual contribution to the chemistry of the nitrites of mercury. Toward this
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Science in the forest management in colonial Assam (1826–1947) Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Geetashree Singh
Since ancient period human beings have been dependent on forest and forest products, which gradually led to the evolvement of indigenous forest management system. The indigenous rulers and people revered the forest and forest products in form of sacred groves, trees and plants. Jhum or shifting cultivation is one such traditional method of cultivation which was favourable for the climate of Assam.
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Object-numerals as listed in Nijaguṇa Śivayogī ’s Viveka-Cintāmaṇi Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Dipak Jadhav
Nijaguṇa Śivayog ī was a Liṅgāyata Indian philosopher who flourished sometime between 1250 and 1655 CE. He composed the Viveka-Cintāmaṇi in Kannaḍa. The fifty-nine object-numerals listed in this work by him under the heading gaṇita-sañjñe (mathematical notations) are studied in this paper. Every object-numeral is a bearer of deeply rooted thought in ancient Indian society, be it from the Vedic, paurāṇika
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Use of animals in the health management of elephants in medieval period of Assam, India Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Rasna Rajkhowa, Bipul Ch. Saikia
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From forest to plantation: a brief history of the rubber tree Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-02-06 T. S. Suryanarayanan, João Lúcio Azevedo
This article describes how the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) (Willd. ex A. Juss.) (Müll. Arg., family–Euphorbiaceae) which grows wildly in the Amazon forests, came under global focus due to industrial revolution. From 1860 to 1913, since the tree was found only in the Amazon forest, the entire world depended on a few business magnates of that region for rubber. These rubber barons enslaved many
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Food, water and intoxicants in the battlefield practices of Rajasthan Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Aalok Pandya
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History of an observatory on the Agasthiyar hill top Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-01-24 R. Jayakrishnan
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Hundred years of geophysics (1834–1933) Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Indrajit G. Roy
Geophysics is relatively a new discipline in comparison to physics or geology. Contrary to general perception as an ancillary to geology, the discipline has been developed with a distinct focus of using the principles and methods of physics for the earth processes. Geophysics was born in the nineteenth century as a necessary element of theoretical geography. Academicians and researchers in the field
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Representation of the midnight sun in Greek and Indian astronomical texts Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Vinay Iyer, Ramakrishna Pejathaya
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Dr. Gopaul Chunder Roy (1844–1887): An extraordinary life dedicated to the cause of medical science Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Indranil Sanyal
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Documenting Flora Indica: Dysentery, William Roxburgh and medical botany Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Pranjali
British interest in exploration and documentation of Flora Indica did not originate from the scientific interest in plants, but it was the result of exigencies of running the empire. When the civil and military explorers of the East India Company came from an oceanic climate to tropical region like India, they suffered with dysentery and similar other diseases. Subsequently, the quest for local remedies
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Perspective and retrospective of the Indian Social Science Academy, Allahabad, India Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-11-21 G. Parthasarathy, N. P. Chaubey
We present here a brief historical note on the Indian Social Science Academy (ISSA), Allahabad, the only academy for social sciences in India. This academy has been established in 1974 at Allahabad, India. The aim of this note is to bring out information about the history of the ISSA and its academic activities to the scientists, educationists, researchers, engineers and policy makers during this 75th
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The status of tribal medical system and practices in the Jungle Mahals, Eastern India, 1947–2000 Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Nirmal Kumar Mahato
This study deals with the collection, preparation and practice of medicine by the tribals (Santals, Munda, Oraons, Sabar and Birhors) of Jungle Mahals in eastern India. This study finds low levels of overlap in medicinal floras even in the case of tribal communities, who are linguistically, culturally, and ecologically very closely related. Thus, the knowledge about many medicinal floras of the healers
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Physics and physicists at Banaras Hindu University: circa 1916–1960 Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Ritesh Gupta
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A review on rock paintings of India: technique, pigment and conservation Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Anjali Sharma, Manager Rajdeo Singh
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Journey of natural pigments from ancient antiquity to present: insights on sustainable development Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Shrabana Sarkar, Dilnawaz Khatun, Bhramar Dutta, Rajib Bandopadhyay
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Indus zoomorphism and its avatars Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-10-07 M. V. Bhaskar
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History of ARIES: a premier research institute in the area of observational sciences Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Ram Sagar
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Reassessing European impressions of Indian astronomy (1750–1850) Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Ankur Kakkar
The early colonial rule in India was characterised by, among other things, an increasing interest in various disciplines of Indian knowledge traditions. Within the vast array of Indian knowledge systems, the astronomical sciences and corresponding Sanskrit treatises attracted the attention of many prominent orientalists such as Henry Thomas Colebrooke and John Warren. This essay is an attempt to highlight
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Ethno-medico-botanical studies of Eruliga and Lambani tribes of Kanakapura taluk of Ramanagara district of Karnataka Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-08-18 M. P. Shivamanjunatha
A study was carried out on the ethno-medico-botanical knowledge of Eruliga and Lambani tribal communities including the native Vaidyas of other communities in Kanakapura taluk of Ramanagara district of Karnataka. The field survey and documentation of indigenous medicinal knowledge and medicinal plants was conducted from September 2019 to March 2022. A total of 417 formulations consisting of 217 medicinal
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Meghnad Saha, F.R.S.: the multiple facets of a teacher Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Samir Kumar Saha
Meghnad Saha, the famous scientist, researcher, organiser and institution builder became a D.Sc. at the age of 25 and the 5th Indian Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.) at 34. Having primary education in village schools, he rose to be one of the top scientists India ever produced, establishing two of the foremost science academies of the country. He has been nominated six times for the nobel prize
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Cattle plague and the introduction of veterinary education in colonial Bengal Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Jhinuk Sarkar
Historically, Bengal had played a pivotal role in the introduction of a regulated regime of veterinary practice and education in colonial India. The proposed study seeks to view this practice through the lens of cattle plague that gripped the province in the second half of nineteenth century. Contrary to what the extant literature makes us believe, it is argued that in the matter of livestock management
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Technological modifications in the tanning and leather industry from pre-British to colonial Punjab Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Mandakini Thakur
Hereditary artisans have been an important segment of Punjabi society since the medieval times. Pre-colonial Punjab was an agricultural province, where industrial production was largely confined to village industries, which catered to meet the demands of the local population. Tanning and leather making was one of the professions that was a traditional village industry in which the methods of production
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The origins of scientific disciplines: a counter-history of western science Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Roberto G. Barbosa
In this paper we present a historical narrative that rewrites the origins and foundations of modern Western science, particularly of scientific disciplines. We call this rewriting of the history of science ‘counter-history of science’, the history of science of the vanquished or of those made invisible by the history of Western science. In the counter-history of science, we explore how international
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Therapeutic elements of music in ancient India: a brief review in Bṛhattrayī Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Abirlal Gangopadhyay, J. S. R. Prasad
The non-medical Sanskrit texts have indirect references to music as a therapy in ancient India. The vaidyas used it as an alternative therapeutic technique in addition to conventional treatment methods for coma and post-coma complications, tuberculosis, pitta aggravation, protective measures for newborns and in cases of mental distress to regain homeostasis. They also used soothing, pleasant music
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Fishing, migration, and settlement: a study of Kaibartas in Majuli Island, Assam Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Debasish Dey
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Skin disorders (twak rogas) revealed in the Atharvaveda: Descriptions of medicinal plants and utilization Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Raghava S. Boddupalli
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Dr. Chunilal Bose: a forgotten scientist and a science communicator Indian Journal of History of Science Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Indranil Sanyal
Modern medical education began in Bengal with the establishment of Calcutta Medical College (CMC) in 1835. Soon it became an important centre for medical education and research in India. Chunilal Bose (1861–1930), an alumnus of CMC, worked in his alma mater as the Chemical Examiner of Bengal for more than three decades and conducted pioneering researches on toxins and poisons, food poisoning, food