The subject of Essence of Indian Traditions is about the explorations of India since ancient times. The emerging trend to know more about ourselves to advance further in various fields such as science and technology has driven to compose this book. This book shall be useful for numerous degree and diploma courses in technology. Such courses are now also have been mandated by AICTE for syllabus in B.Tech courses. The syllabus of this course has been extensively covered in this text book. In addition to this, the book is also useful for people who are interested in acquiring knowledge about Indian traditions, its origins and its development through the course of time.
Traditional knowledge is extremely important in understanding the basis of the development, which remains a continuous eternal process. Our ancestors assert many conceptions pertaining to our daily chores like eating, sleeping, waking up, working etc. in very simple ways and after research, they have been proved as the right ways according to science. Based on those propositions, various ways of living are devised. On being asked about the way of living, most people admit to have learnt that from their parents, but tracing its originality in deep rooted culture is extremely difficult. I still remember my mother calling a Vaidya to check my fever and prescribe medicines. The Vaidya next day used to bring some leaves, roots or some form of herbs as medicines and after two or three days, I used to be fine. Those ways of medical treatments were inheritances from his ancestors to the Vaidya. Similarly, we tend to behave and work in a manner which has been widely accepted and subconsciously, we find no anomaly in this. This tradition unknowingly has become a part of our lives.
This book is about the Essence of Indian Traditional Knowledge, which has stood the test of time. Based on the archaeological findings, it has been established that Indus valley civilisation was the first civilisation of the world. Gradually, people developed many rituals and ways of working. some of which can still be found today. Worshiping, rituals, celebrations of festivals, paintings, constructions, agriculture, singing, playing music, fighting wars, governing people, practice of justice, punishments, jaila, sports, transportations, clothing, ornamenta, touring etc. are some of the human activities which are ancient but still an inevitable part of today's human life. This book consists of eight chapters and in order to acclimatize the reader, I would like to give a brief description of each one.
Chapter one is about the brief description of civilisations from Ancient India to independent India. This chapter describes the early Indian civilisations such as Indus Valley, Mohan-Jodaro, and Harappa etc. The way of living of human beings involving various amenities in earlier times are also mentioned. Various dynasties which built this country in different ways are also mentioned to acknowledge the efforts of Indian rulers in welfare of public. Primarily, India was the native land of Hindus but gradually Muslims, Christians and Parsis also became permanent residents of this country. Religions like; Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism were developed in due course of time. Buddhism and Jainism spread not only in India but also in the neighbour countries like Sri Lanka, Japan, China, Burma, Bhutan, Thailand etc. In latter decades India became land of multiple religions and beliefs.
Hindu (935)
Agriculture (118)
Ancient (1086)
Archaeology (753)
Architecture (563)
Art & Culture (910)
Biography (702)
Buddhist (544)
Cookery (167)
Emperor & Queen (565)
Islam (242)
Jainism (307)
Literary (896)
Mahatma Gandhi (372)
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