What are some of the scientific and
technological advancements of ancient India?
For sake of clarification my
“ancient India” was the period from past 2000 to past 40 generations and
geographical extent was restricted to the current boundary of Indian sub
continent.
In the era of WhatsApp Universities unsubstantiated,
virally circulated fictitious facts and zero investment Blogger publications of
self proclaimed inventions or hyper linking with more dubious authors; we have
to ask with ourselves following two questions.
1. Do we understand why science is required to be studied?
2. What meaning we understand of technology?
“Anything that you can define and
test falls within the realm of science. Science is the word of ‘coming to
understanding’ “
To answer our question #2 about
technology a simple Google search shows us technology meaning
the application of scientific
knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.
Now question arrives which was the
biggest industry in era we are talking about of ancient India.
And here are the 200 million people
to be feed in less than 4.4 million square kilometre of earth surface just at
the end of that era.
For sake of benchmarking just
compare the current population 325 million of United States of America to fed
from the 9.834 million km² of earth surface with all the latest gadgets like
motor pump, electricity, insecticide spraying by aircrafts and ploughing with
machines like this
and like this
and all this with an efficiency of
9.834/325 = 3.03 hectare per person lower than ancient India’s 2.20 hectare per
person achieved; 1000 year ago from today.
Now come to the question raised by
us “which was the biggest industry” in era we are talking about?
So by our previous discussion we
can conclude that agriculture was the biggest industry in that era; feeding 1000
year back from today, peoples of entire subcontinent; at an efficiency of 138%
compared to the current United States’ (with all its modern gigantic machinery)
So I just described one scientific
and technological advancements of ancient India; here and it was so big that if we sit to write just few ingredient
of it in detail; it is going to become lengthy enough to attract comments likehttps://www.quora.com/Why-was-India-known-as-the-Golden-Bird-Sone-ki-Chidiya-in-the-ancient-times/answers/14072548/comment/12631546