With the comin g of the Europeans, and especially during the colonial rule, imitation of what the rulers did and practised became more and more popular. But, there was also resistance to this wholesale copying of the foreigners’ practices. ‘Reverence for the past is a national trait. There is a certain doggedness of temperament, a stubborn loyalty to lose nothing in the long march of the ages. ...

1. Western Misinterpretations 1.1. Max Weber's Prebendal Bureaucracy 1.2. Karl Marx's Asiatic Mode of Production 1.3. Eisenstadt's Bureaucratic Empires 2. Comparisons: India and China 3. Indian and Chinese Evolution: Critical Comparisons 4. Confucian Brahmins and Kautilyan Mandarins 5. The European Evolution 5.1. The Roman Empire 5.2. Feudalism and the Catholic Church 5.3. Societal Evolution: F...

The ancient Indians were the custodians of a highly evolved civilization with great awareness on the decisive importance as well as the vulnerability of man's natural environment. The ancient Indians sages and Rishis had considered human environment from the point of view of physical, chemical, biological and social process that influences directly or indirectly the health and well - being of t...

India is a land steeped in faith and mysticism. Ayurveda, combining the Sanskrit words for life and knowledge, is a system of medicine intertwined inextricably with these traits. That a core of belief combined with empirical experimentation could produce a viable medical regimen still widely practiced after well over 3000 years is astounding to Western physicians. Cannabis was similarly bound t...

Siddha system is the ancient Dravidian system of medicine presently practiced predominantly in South India. In practice, generally the plants used are often in the compound form to which either herbs, metals, minerals and animals products are added. This paper attempts to describe the need for standardizing the drugs since the efficacy of medicines depends on their genuineness, indicating the m...

BACKGROUND Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that affects almost 250,000 people worldwide. The timing of first infection, geographic origin, and pattern of transmission of the disease are still under investigation. Comparative genomics research has suggested M. leprae evolved either in East Africa or South Asia during the Late Pleistocene before spreading to...

Medical knowledge of anatomy is found in Susruta Samhita, the classical Indian medical literature on surgery, The fifth chapter of the third book devoted to anatomy in its concluding part teaches the method by which a cadaver is to be dissected. Translation of the relevant passage and an explanation is attempted here.

Esteemed fellows and members of IPS, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this conference in this historic city of Bhubaneswar close to the holy land of Lord Jagdish. I am grateful to the members of IPS for giving me an opportunity to serve the highest office for one year. At various occasions in the past in last two and half decades as a ...

What are generally referred to as the Fibonacci numbers and the method for their formation were given by Virahanka (between A.D. 600 and X00). Gopala (prior to A.D. 1135) and Hemacandra (c. A.D. 1150). all prior to L. Fibonacci (c. A.D. 1202). Narayana Pandita (A.D. 13Sh) established a relation between his srftcisi~ci-pcrirLfi. which contains Fibonacci numbers as a particular case. and “the mul...

Plants have been used since ancient times to heal and cure diseases and to improve health and well being. Sida cordifolia Linn belonging to family Malvaceae is widely distributed throughout the plains of India. The various parts of Sida cordifolia possess different biological perspectives such as antidiabetic, anti stress, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, hepatoprotective and anticancer activity. ...