The Rise of Modern Indian Science and Technology
Explore how modern Indian science rose on three pillars: pioneering scientists, industrial philanthropists, and state-built research institutions.

Explore how modern Indian science rose on three pillars: pioneering scientists, industrial philanthropists, and state-built research institutions.

From Mughal observatories to British geological surveys, discover how foreign rule reshaped Indian science, and how Indian scholars pushed back.

Explore science in medieval India, from Mādhava’s infinite series and Bhāskara II’s algebra to Wootz Steel and Indo-Islamic architecture.

From temples to metallurgy, explore the remarkable Gupta period architecture and technology that defined India’s Golden Age of applied science.

Explore the golden age of Indian science, from Āryabhaṭa’s mathematics and astronomy to Brahmagupta’s algebra and the Nyāya school of logic.

From Babylon to Rome, the ancient Indian trade was never isolated, it was a crossroads where astronomy, medicine, and philosophy.

Explore how the science in Iron Age India laid the foundations of atomism, ayurveda, astronomy, and mathematics between 600-1 BCE

From matter to medicinal herbs, the later Vedic sciences turned their gaze from the cosmos to the natural world, and changed Indian science forever

Nakṣatras, yugas, and tithis: how ancient Indian astronomy mapped the skies and built the foundation of Indian scientific thought.