A course on Indian knowledge systems at IIT Gandhinagar

Classroom study these days is not limited to just the course one selects as a major but a varities of subjects that will make a person industry ready and knowledgeable.

The fourth edition of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar’s unique semester elective course, Introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), offered by the

Humanities

and Social Sciences discipline, will be conducted from January to April 2020.

The theme for this year is ‘The Idea of Ancient India’, which will offer a wide-ranging introduction to ancient India’s intellectual, scientific and artistic knowledge traditions, and early Indian society.

Eight eminent scholars from various parts of India and abroad will collectively teach the course along with course coordinators Prof

Michel Danino

and

Mana Shah

from

IIT Gandhinagar

. The course on ‘The Idea of Ancient India’ will provide an insider’s perspective on various topics such as Concepts and practices of architecture across India; Foreign travellers’ views of India — or of Indias?; Indian traditions of image worship and safeguarding; Pan-Indian intellectual traditions; Sanskrit Kāvya as history; Traditions of sacred ecology across India; Pan-Indic concepts and practices of governance, political theory, moral instruction and ethics; Pan-Indian traditions of pilgrimage; India’s sacred geography: The mandala landscape and the mandala in built form; and Pan-Indian traditions of science and technology.