INDIA,
A 7000-YEAR-OLD HISTORY OF
LIFE-CHANGING IDEAS
BIRTHPLACE OF THOUSANDS OF
IDEAS, INVENTIONS, AND DISCOVERIES
THAT CHANGED THE WORLD?
India’s Life-Changing Contributions to the World
A 7000 yeat timeline of Indian history reveals that India was the birthplace of innumerable Ideas, Inventions, and Discoveries that enabled humankind to make huge strides of progress.
Indians have catalysed the wheels of our civilisations’ growth by contributing extensively to our material and our non-material worlds.
India’s contribution to the material world ranges from fields as diverse as Architecture, Astronomy, Cartography, Communication, Medicine, Logic, Surgery, Complex Hydraulic Engineering, and Metallurgy to Information Technology and Polar Technology.
India’s contribution to the non-material world ranges from fields as diverse as Spirituality, Plurality, Fitness, Art, to Cuisine and Non-Violence.
A JOURNEY INTO INDIA’S PAST
India’s Contributions to
OUR MATERIAL WORLD
India’s contribution to the material world starts from the invention of buttons on our crisp cotton shirts to the cultivation of cotton itself to the spinning wheels on which cotton was traditionally spun.
Over thousands of years, Indians have invented products ranging from pre-fabricated homes to movable structures, to essentials like shampoo, intellectually stimulating board games like chess, wireless communication that powers our cell phones, an organised system of education to trigonometry, the ruler, the compass, and beyond.
India’s Contributions to
OUR NON-MATERIAL WORLD
India’s contribution to the non-material world ranges from Bollywood and Shahrukh Khan to Yoga, a preferred form of exercise for over 300 million people globally, with the world now celebrating International Yoga Day on June 21st thanks to Prime Minister Modi.
Indian food, ranging from Dosas, Dal Makhani to Samosas is favoured by millions of people outside India.
Globally, scientists, philosophers, writers, and linguists alike have applauded the profound influence Sanskrit has had on many other languages. Sanskrit “has the largest body of literature in the world, about 5 to 30 million extant manuscripts – that is 100 times those in Greek and Latin combined have been written in Sanskrit”.
