Class
Article
College
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty Mentor
Ravi Gupta
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Abstract
Dayananda Saraswati (1823-1881) was a religious reformer, Vedic scholar, and a highly innovative thinker. Despite a desire to reform India according to his perception of the Aryavarta, or noble community, using only Indian sources his works, including the Satyartha Prakash and the Rigvedadibashyabhumika, show clear borrowing of concepts of science and technology from European sources. By studying what intellectual choices Dayananda made in his borrowing, we can learn much about the relationship between European science and India religion during this significant period of India’s history.
Location
Room 421
Start Date
4-12-2018 3:00 PM
End Date
4-12-2018 4:15 PM
Vedic science and the Colonial Machine
Room 421
Dayananda Saraswati (1823-1881) was a religious reformer, Vedic scholar, and a highly innovative thinker. Despite a desire to reform India according to his perception of the Aryavarta, or noble community, using only Indian sources his works, including the Satyartha Prakash and the Rigvedadibashyabhumika, show clear borrowing of concepts of science and technology from European sources. By studying what intellectual choices Dayananda made in his borrowing, we can learn much about the relationship between European science and India religion during this significant period of India’s history.