IIC Conference & Exhibition on South Asia’s Manuscript Traditions and Mathematical Contributions | 04 September, New Delhi

IIC Conference & Exhibition on South Asia's Manuscript Traditions and Mathematical Contributions

04 September 2025, 10:00 am

Venue: Seminar Rooms 1,2,3, IIC, New Delhi

The conference examines South Asia's manuscript traditions, focusing on mathematical thought and the challenges of deciphering diverse texts. It highlights their pedagogical, computational, and global contributions, underscoring the continuing relevance of this heritage.

• At  10:00 am  Inauguration by Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
• At  10:00 am Keynote Address by Prof. Manjul Bhargava, awarded Fields Medal (2014)
• At 16:00 Lecture - demonstration: Sarangi and Vocal by Dr Deepak Paramshivan, IIT Madras
• At 18:30 Exhibition Inauguration at Main Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex

Chief Guest: Dr S. Jaishankar, Hon. Minister of External Affairs, Govt. of India
Welcome Remarks: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
Exhibition Walkthrough: Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Project Director, SAMHiTA and Prof. K. Ramasubramanian, Conference Convenor
Vote of Thanks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
The exhibition will be on view till Sunday, 14th September from 11:00 to 19:00 hrs
The Mathematical Sciences: South Asia's Contributions
This exhibition traces India's (and broadly South Asia's) contribution to global mathematics through its historical development, theories and practices, contextualization through lineages, and exchanges and recontextualization through time and space. To understand this multi-layered discipline, the exhibition displays reproductions of manuscripts of works from the Vedic period to the early modern era, including treatises, explanatory commentaries and manuals

(Collaboration: IIC-International Research Division and Centre for Traditional Indian Knowledge Systems and Skills, IIT Bombay)

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Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Centre for Studies in Science Policy
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067, India

डॉ. अनुप कुमार दास 

विज्ञान नीति अध्ययन केंद्र, सामाजिक विज्ञान विद्यालय,

जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय, नई दिल्ली - 110067, भारत

Web: www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com

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