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Principal Investigators Prof. V. N. Giri Prof. Suhita Chopra Chatterjee Prof. Pallab Dasgupta Prof. Narayan C. Nayak Prof. Priyadarshi Patnaik Prof. Aurobindo Routray HISTORICAL EVOLUTION Prof. Arindam Basu Prof. William K. Mohanty Prof. Probal Sengupta OF INDIA Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee & An assessment of ideals of the Aryan Civilization Prof. Joy Sen A synoptic collation of research by SandHI Summer Interns of 2015 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR www.iitkgpsandhi.org | +91 9830161350 cygnusadvertising.in INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR Advisor Prof. Partha P. Chakrabarti Director, IIT Kharagpur Patron-Advisor Ms. Amita Sharma Advisor to HRM, MHRD, Government of India Former Additional Secretary (Technical), MHRD, Government of India Monitoring Cell Prof. Sunando Dasgupta Dean, Sponsored Research and Consultancy Cell, IIT Kharagpur Prof. Pallab Dasgupta Associate Dean, Sponsored Research and Consultancy Cell, IIT Kharagpur Principal Investigator (overall) Prof. Joy Sen Department of Architecture & Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF INDIA Vide order no. F. NO. 4-26/2013-TS-1, Dt. 19-11-2013 (36 months w.e.f 15-1-2014 and 1 additional year for outreach programs) An assessment of ideals of the Aryan Civilization Professor-in-Charge Documentation and Dissemination Prof. Priyadarshi Patnaik Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur Research Scholars Group (Coordinators) Sunny Bansal, Vidhu Pandey, Prerna Mandal, Arpan Paul, Deepanjan Saha Graphics Support Tanima Bhattacharya, Sandhi Research Assistant, SRIC, IIT Kharagpur ISBN: 978-93-80813-33-2 © SandHI A Science and Heritage Initiative, IIT Kharagpur Sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India Published in September 2015 www.iitkgpsandhi.org Design & Printed by Cygnus Advertising (India) Pvt. Ltd. 55B, Mirza Ghalib Street 8th Floor, Saberwal House, Kolkata - 700016 www.cygnusadvertising.in Disclaimer A synoptic collation of research by The information present in the Report offers the views of the authors and not of the Report or its Editorial Board or the publishers. Publication does not constitute endorsement by the Report. No party involved in the preparation of material contained in SandHI Report SandHI Summer Interns of 2015 represents or warrants that the information contained herein is in every respect accurate or complete and they are not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of such material. Readers are encouraged to confirm the information contained herein with other sources. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR A Tribute A synoptic collation of research by SandHI Summer Interns of 2015 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 03 It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. The book attempts to re-explore the immense significance of the historical arrival of Swami Vivekananda on the world stage, on the occasion of the Parliament of Religions in Werner Heisenberg Chicago, on this day of September 11, 1893; to take over the universal mind of humanity… SandHI, a Science and Heritage Initiative of IIT Kharagpur (A mega-initiative sponsored by the MHRD, Government of India) will present an Exhibition on Preamble - Language Systems - Music and Cognition - Meditation and Therapy - Iconography History of Science and Technology & Science of Indian History (Myth and Truth) Geo-Exploration, Coastal Heritage, Urban Design and Engineering Special Mega Project: Varanasi - End-of-life Care - Generosity he Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of Creative Economy and Regeneration - India has steered a series of national and regional level workshops, for launching pilot projects, for creating centers of excellence based on a spirit of inter and intra-institutional convergence promoting Tresearch, development, innovation (RDI) initiatives. The idea is to pro-activate and augment a 'people- September 11 - 13, 2015 centric' course of India's future growth plans, strategies and development programs based on clusters of projects executed by IITs and other allied institutes. at Addressing the aforesaid course, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has made a distinctive and Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) forerunning headway for creating and initiating a cluster of projects under the 'Science Heritage Interface' scheme 9A, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata of Government of India. Other IITs and Institutes of national importance have also followed. The present report is one of many to represent the headway. The report represents the effort to forward the vision of IIT Kharagpur, which will serve both as an umbrella to plan, design and activate a 'people-centric' ground reality for a cluster of projects. The vision is based on the twin foundations of Indo-centric theme and an operational-cum- organizational structure of scientific exploration, at the same time. These projects represent inter and intra- institutional convergence of research, development, innovation (RDI) initiatives. The vision is called 'SANDHI'. 'SANDHI' literally means convergence and confluence. 'SandHI' is also the platform of inter-disciplinary and inter- institutional assimilation. SandHI is the acronym of 'Science-Heritage Initiative''. Under 'SANDHI', there are four levels of activity: First, a deeper level of philosophical research based on scientific exploration; Secondly, an outward recovery of Indian heritage systems based on the epistemological domain of Indian science and technology driven traditions; thirdly, a re-positioning of traditional community planning and The going forth of Vivekananda, marked out by the Master as the heroic soul destined to engineering systems based on the Indian ethos; leading to a fourth and demonstrative level, i.e., a pro-active take the world between his two hands and change it, was the first visible sign to the world resurrection of traditional knowledge systems of India based on creative economy regeneration and marketing in that India was awake not only to survive but to conquer. various corners of reality – concerning the people, their economy, their folk and the all-round liveability of the surrounding they belong to. Sri Aurobindo 04 Historical Evolution of India An assessment of ideals of the Aryan Civilization A synoptic collation of research by SandHI Summer Interns of 2015 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 05 The background To best address these levels, SandHI has three Response. The first project looks at the decoding of grammar; Music and Meditation – converging to a and re-create a harmony, respect and renewed bandwidths of projects. First, it has a deeper level, Ancient Classifications of Indian Ragas and the second common platform of therapeutic objective and cathartic confidence in the depths of the very history of our where deep science and heritage interface based project aims at a deep evaluation of Audience Response healing; Iconography and Music – extracting common motherland. To specially note are the insertion pages projects have been designed. Secondly, there are large to Indian Classical Music Classification. patterns of audience-response and audience-demand- that are positioned before every micro researched piece. scale Geo-exploratory and geo-technical riparian based The two iconographic projects are trying to establish a systems and so on. To aim is to arrive at the spirit of In each there is an excerpt from the masterpiece that paleo-hydrological investigations; epigraphic scientific correlation between 2-D footprints of the built grand thought, the grand convergence. This is SandHI. foreruns the spirit of the micro research conducted by a investigation and iconographic-archaeological environment (Architecture) based on a Ecologic- The present report is a wonderful work of a team of single or a group of student interns within a short span interpretations; and contemporary application/ Climatic construct and anthropocentric patterns and brilliant minds. They are a collation of summer interns of two summer months of 2015. tourism revival based projects, which are also inclusive establish a relationship with 3-D systems of of the year 2015. They are from IIT Kharagpur and IIT The report is therefore a tribute to the historic event of a very Mega iconic project on 'Varanasi', the living and iconographic patterns or 'footprints' called 'Mandala' as Roorkee. They are the works of young vibrant minds - that took place on September 11, 1893. It is an event sustainable river-based urban habitat of India and the evident in designs of Temple, Sacred Precincts and fresh, open, unadulterated and free. Each piece has that has changed the world and also an event that world for over 3500 years or more. Third and finally, General Settlement forms in Indian architecture and been presented in a format differing slightly from the marked the beginning of a recovery of our ancient SandHI has formulated a set of creative economic also in regions and countries beyond India. other, keeping the spirit of an open-ended exploration. civilization, so that she speaks out her latest creative generation projects of which one is to re-explore the The second Iconography driven project is attempting to Sixteen micro research pieces have been stitched word – for all human people; thereby marking the application and design of terracotta technology
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