Extractions: Substance and context Methods and objectives Work plan History and duration ... Text Analysis Substance and Context The two centuries before European colonialism established itself decisively in the Indian subcontinent (ca. 1550-1750) constitute one of the most innovative eras in Sanskrit intellectual history. Thinkers began to work across disciplines far more intensively than ever before, to produce new formulations of old problems, to employ a strikingly new discursive idiom and present their ideas in what were often new genres of scholarly writing. Concurrent with the spread of European power in the mid-eighteenth century, however, this dynamism began to diminish. By the end of the century, the tradition of Sanskrit systematic thought-which for two millennia or more constituted one of the most remarkable cultural formations in world history-had more or less vanished as a force in shaping Indian intellectual life, to be replaced by other kinds of knowledge based on different principles of knowing and acting in the world. In these two phases of history lie the core issues of this research project: the nature of the "knowledge systems" or scholarly disciplines in India on the eve of colonial rule, and the fact of their decline in the face of the new epistemological and social regime of European modernity. In order to understand these developments, contributors to the Knowledge Systems Project will undertake four linked tasks: inventory the intellectual production in seven disciplines during this period; collect unpublished manuscripts and documents from archives in South Asia; create a bibliographical and prosopographical database derived from printed and manuscript sources; study selected Sanskrit works according to a uniform analytical matrix. The results will be collected in a book that will be the first to offer an account of the Sanskrit disciplines and the intellectuals who produced them at the moment both were about to be transformed utterly.
Full Alphabetical Index List of mathematical biographies indexed alphabetically http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Full_Alph.html
GEORGE GHEVERGHESE JOSEPH'S HOME PAGE GEORGE GHEVERGHESE JOSEPH HOME PAGE School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom http://les.man.ac.uk/ses/staff/ggj
Extractions: A DDRESS BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS PUBLICATIONS ... LECTURES AND SEMINARS ADDRESS School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom Centre for Mathematics Education, School of Education, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom Telephone Fax: (044) 0161-275-4812 E-mail Address George.Joseph@man.ac.uk BIOGRAPHICAL DETAIL S Aryabhateeyam , which was held in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, India. He has appeared in radio and televisions programmes in India, United States, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand as well as United Kingdom. His publications include three books: Women at Work ( Philip Allan, Oxford, 1983), The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics ( 1st Hardback Edition, Tauris, 1991; 1st Paperback Edition, Penguin 1992, 2nd Edition, jointly by Penguin Books and Princeton University Press, 2000) and Multicultural Mathematics: Teaching Mathematics from a Global Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1993). He is also the author of about 70 articles and chapters in books. He is at present working on two projects: a history of Indian mathematics and a biography of his grandfather, George Joseph, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawarhalal Nehru and other leaders of modern India.