Science and Society in Ancient India

This is the first serious study of the profound promise with which positive science begins in ancient India. It is also a study of how this promise is eventually stifled by the ideological requirements of hierarchical society. With an equal distance for chauvinistic cliches and fashionable jargons, the author goes in for an enormous amount of cold textual data analyzed by him with an amazingly lucid but devastatingly persuasive logic. These show that hierarchical aspirations sense danger in practically everything that makes science possible- in secularism, in the rational processing of empirical data, in the uninhibited search for the laws of nature inspired by the hope that their knowledge alone ensures freedom from avoidable human sufferings.

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