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Ancient India
3000BC-1736AD
Contributions
India also has a fair share in
enriching the world's material culture. It is not well know that
among other things; the distillation of perfumes, the making of
dyes, the extraction of sugar, the weaving of cotton (muslin) cloth,
and even the techniques of algebra and algorithm, the concept of
zero, the technique of surgery, the concepts of atom and
relativity, the principle of magnetism actually utilised in making a
Mariner's Compass, the herbal system of medicine, the technique of
alchemy, the smelting of metals, the game
of Chess, the martial art
of Karate, etc., are to be found in ancient India and there are
evidences which indicate that they might
have originated here.
Source: India's
Contribution to
Material
World
"Many
of the advances in the sciences that we consider today
to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India
centuries ago."
- Grant Duff (British Historian of India) Source:
India's
Contribution
to Material
World
India also has a fair share in
enriching the world's material culture. It is not well know that
among other things; the distillation of perfumes, the making of
dyes, the extraction of sugar, the weaving of cotton (muslin) cloth,
and even the techniques of algebra and algorithm, the concept of
zero, the technique of surgery, the concepts of atom and
relativity, the principle of magnetism actually utilised in making a
Mariner's Compass, the herbal system of medicine, the technique of
alchemy, the smelting of metals, the game 