Swarajya series on Indian Astronomy and Mathematics

Swarajya magazine is publishing a series of my essays about Indian Mathematics and Astronomy. I'll add links to new essays as and when Swarajya publishes them.

Swarajya's Contents page for these essays

Links to individual essays

1. Sanskrit - A Language of Science

2. An Introduction to Indian Astronomy

3. Number notations in Sanskrit

4  Astronomy and Mathematics in the Vedas

5 The Vedangas (mathematics in prosody, grammar, shulba sutras)

6 The Eighteen Jyotisha Siddhantas

7 Eclipses as shadows - VarahaMihira's proof

8 Aryabhata 

9 The Classical era - From Brahmagupta to Bhaskara

10 Kerala school of Mathematics

My other essays in Swarajya

Earlier Swarajya has published my essays on Mamallapuram and Amaravati sculptures, also.

Mamallapuram
Amaravati sculptures
Tamil Heritage Trust

Contents Page for this Blog

Index of History Essays வரலாற்று கட்டுரைகள்

Madras History

Madras, India's first modern city - Notes from S Muthiah's lecture
Madras and its American connections - notes from S Muthiah's lecture
Thomas Trautmann on Francis Whyte Ellis

The Thames and the Cooum - Rivers of London and Madras

Madras Time - an essay in South First

Tamilnadu History
A temple in a river island

Rabindranath Tagore on the Grand Old Man of Tamil - U Ve Swaminatha Iyer

Keezhadi excavation - Notes from Amarnath Ramakrishnan lecture

Babington's Gift - on the third Atiranachanda Inscription of Mamallapuram

A history of Pallava Grantha - the Sanskrit script of South India and South East Asia
A brief history of Kanchipuram

Indian History
A Dholavira surprise 
Puranagiri - the Tantrapitha
Vaishali - a travelogue
Did Macaulay destroy Sanskrit - debunking a popular rumor

Samrat Asoka - notes from a book release
History - Three perspectives
British abolition of Slavery in India - India's true Independence Day
The Asiatic Society of Bengal - Rediscovery of Asoka, Brahmi, and Indian history
Is India secular? - Notes from Michel Danino's lecture

Four Napoleons and the Steam engine

India doesn't want to know

Pride in your Heritage - A Bangalore story : Madras Musings essay

Essays in South First magazine

Venkayya - a brief biography of the man who rediscovered Rajaraja Chola

Manohar Devadoss - an obituary

Arittapatti - an ancient village near Madurai

A rare Tamil Translation : Badri Seshadri's Aryabhata 

Oviyappavai: A review of Dr Nagaswamy's book

Madras Standard Time

Indology Conference - Nov-Dec 2020

World History
The Thames and the Cooum - Rivers of London and Madras
1493 The Colombian exchange - Notes from Charles Mann's lecture
Genghis Khan - and the making of the modern world

Timelines
Gujarat and Tamilnadu - timeline of ruling dynasties
Karnataka and Tamilnadu - timeline of ruling dynasties
Orissa and Tamilnadu - timeline of ruling dynasties
A Timeline of Sanskrit literature
A Timeline of Tamil Literature (தமிழ் இலக்கியம் - ஒரு கால அட்டவணை)

Nagaswamy - beyond borders

Introduction

1. Ardhanaari, Harihara and Nataraja
2. Chidambaram and Bengal
3. Purnagiri - the Tantrapitha
4. Jain art under the Pallavas
5. The Indian pictures of Governor Peter Anker
6. Temples of village Gods
7. Dolmens : Hero stones
8. Pallava influence on Chalukya art
9. Temporal seat of authority in Rural and Urban settlements
10. Art of the Pandyas

Dr R Nagaswamy : A Tribute (Essay in Madras Musings)

History of Science and Technology
Diseases in Retreat - the phenomenal medical feat of the 20th century
Turbines - Prime Movers of the 20th century
Darwin and his doctors - The bad health of the world's most famous biologist
What did Brahmagupta do? - Our ignorance of Indian science
A brief history of Indian mathematics - notes from a lecture by Manjul Bhargava
The origin of Modern Chemistry - Antoine Lavoisier
Alfred Russel Wallace - Darwin's admirer and rival
Emile Levassor - Architect of Cars

Economic History
A Lack of Economic Knowledge - Mario Vargos Lhosa's enlightenment
Ford Lenin Hitler and Chaplin

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