A group of scholars met in Bengaluru over the Republic Day weekend to discuss what ancient Indians really knew. But there was little talk of interplanetary vehicles or references to surgical methods of attaching elephant heads to human torsos. In fact, the conference at the Indian Institute of Science was organised with the purpose of showing that careful, scientific study must be applied to ancient Indian texts and to fight the more fantastical claims that have recently entered the debate about pre-modern Indian knowledge.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 05:52:53 +0000