How has ancient India influenced the modern day world?

2011-09-28 04:32:18 UTC

Has India contributed the most to the continuation of the human species on this planet? YES

Almost everything known to mankind in the area of science, maths, medicine, metaphysics and astronomy came out of India. for eg: Indians were the first to perform surgeries & use anesthesia, Indians came up with the concept of zero and the number system, Indians invented algebra, trigonometry and other areas of mathematics, Indians invented Yoga and martial arts, (even though it is wrongly depicted in the west to be a Chinese invention! The Chinese themselves acknowledge that they learnt it from India!) Indians built the first university, invented the first school of medicine - ayurveda, discovered the art of navigation; The list goes on and on and on!! Indians have, by far, made the most inventions and discoveries! Here is a quote from Einstein.

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"

In fact, on doing further research, I have found out that some of the Europe's greatest inventions and discoveries were actually made in India thousands of years before Europe ever existed! For example, gravity! Isaac Newton did NOT discover gravity, it was discovered at least 2000 years before the British empire existed by an Indian astronomer by the name of Brahmagupta! (I hope I got the spelling right)

"The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge."

- Jean Sylvain Bailly (French astronomer)

Where can we look for sages like those whose systems of philosophy were prototypes of those of Greece: to whose works Plato, Thales and Pythagorus were disciples? Where do I find astronomers whose knowledge of planetary systems yet excites wonder in Europe as well as the architects and sculptors whose works claim our admiration, and the musicians who could make the mind oscillate from joy to sorrow, from tears to smile with the change of modes and varied intonation?

-Colonel James Todd (American pioneer)

It will no longer remain to be doubted that the priests of Egypt and the sages of Greece have drawn directly from the original well of India, that it is to the banks of the Ganges and the Indus that our hearts feel drawn as by some hidden urge.

-Friedrich Mejer (English statesman)

"I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis,.. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe..."

-Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (French writer and philosopher)

Which civilization was the centre of human existence for the longest period of time?

DEFINITELY India! India is the world's largest, oldest, and oldest continuous civilization. India was also the wealthiest civilization on the planet for ALL of human history, (except for the 19th and 20th century, of course!)

"The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original, unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty centuries, without interruption, without deviation."

-Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)

Was it the one land that all men desired to see? YES!

"India is the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined."

-Mark Twain

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Like China made the printing prompting more efficient ways to produce writing and their invention of gunpowder made the inventions of new weapons increase greatly.

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2011-09-28 04:07:27 UTC

Oh my god!! Where do I begin?? To put it in a very simple way, Indians invented/discovered almost everything in every field imaginable!! India was the centre of the world for every century except the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Let us go through SOME of their important inventions/discoveries, cuz it would be impossible to mention all of them cuz they made so many:

1) Mathematics: They invented zero, the number system, (these 2 in particular are probably the greatest inventions made in the history of mankind!) the place value and the decimal system, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, the value of pi and almost every other concept in mathematics.The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12). Here is a quote from Albert Einstein:

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

2) Medicine: Sushrutha is the father of medicine. He was the first person in human history to perform surgeries like kidney stone removal, facial reconstruction surgery and plastic surgery. Indians invented the art of performing surgeries and also discovered the use of Anesthesia. Indians also invented the first school of medicine, namely Ayurveda. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, psychology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

3) Metaphysics/Astronomy: Ancient Indians had a very profound knowledge of the origin of the universe and man, the circumference of the earth and other planets, the age of the universe and the earth,the theory of relativity and also the law of gravity! (It was a man by the name of Brahmagupta who first discovered gravity, it wasn't Isaac Newton). Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.

4) Random: Indians also invented Yoga, martial arts, (it spread from India to other parts of the world) Chess, Snakes and Ladders, buttons, high grade steel manufacturing, the art of navigation, playing cards, gymnasiums, the first university and the first university to admit women, rocket artillery, almost every geometrical instrument, cultivation of cotton, cultivation of jute, mining, the concept of HDI and GDP. Four of the world's major religions originated in India: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.

India's literary, artistic and philosophical contribution to the world is greater than any other civilization in history.

ALL THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.

Here are some quoted to further illustrate my point:

"Almost all the theories, religious, philosophical, and mathematical, taught by the Pythagoreans were known in India in the sixth century B.C."

-H. G. Rawlinson (English Historian)

"I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times."

-John Archibald Wheeler (American scientist)

"Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals."

- Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)

"I shall now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus...of their subtle discoveries even more ingenious than those of the Greeks and Babylonians - of their rational system of mathematics or of their method of calculation which no word can praise strongly enough - I mean the system using the nine symbols. If these things were known by the people who think that they alone have mastered the sciences because they speak Greek, they would perhaps be convinced that every folk, not only Greeks, but men of a different tongues, know something as well as they."

- Severus Sebokbt (Syrian astronomer)

2011-09-28 04:25:32 UTC

India has made the most inventions and discoveries!! India's intellectual contribution is more than every other civilization combined! The 19th and 20th centuries are the only 2 centuries that India was not the wealthiest civilization on the face of the planet. From when time began, up until, and including the 17th century, India was the centre of the world & was also the wealthiest civilization on the planet! THE WEALTH IN ANCIENT INDIA WAS MORE THAN TWICE THE WEALTH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED! India is the world's oldest and oldest continuing civilization I will give you a few quotes for you to make up your mind:

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

- Albert Einstein

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

- Max Mueller (German scholar)

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

- Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

- French scholar Romain Rolland

Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.

-Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)

The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original, unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty centuries, without interruption, without deviation. Ceaselessly in contact with foreign elements which threatened to strangle her, she persevered victoriously in absorbing them, assimilating them and enriching herself with them. Thus she has seen the Greeks, the Scythians, the Afghans, the Mongols to pass before her eyes in succession and is regarding with indifference the Englishmen - confident to pursue under the accidence of the surface the normal course of her high destiny.

-Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)

Since you mentioned China, here is a quote from Hu Shih, the former Ambassador of China to USA:

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

Any one who has even a half - decent grasp of history would not even utter China in the same breath as India as India is a much more ancient civilization that has contributed a hell of a lot more than China! In fact, The Chinese learnt Yoga, martial arts and Buddhism from India! The first priest of the Shaolin Temple was from India! So let us understand human history before we make ludicrous claims!

Stars

2011-09-27 19:00:23 UTC

India's impact on the modern world hasn't been that big. Especially when considering the population it has now and size of the country.

Indian food and receipies can now be found all over the world, herbs and spices which were traded from India, like cinnamon, via the arabs and then directly with Europeans when the Portuguese first landed in south asia.