NOC:Introduction to Ancient Indian Technology (USB)
Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick
NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Dr. D.P. Mishra
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT - Kanpur
NPTEL Lecture Count : 40
NPTEL Course Size : 3.4 GB
NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included
NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)
Lecture Titles:
Lecture 1 - Introduction to Ancient Indian Civilization
Lecture 2 - Ancient Indian CivilizationÂ’s Gift to the World
Lecture 3 - Why do we need to look at Ancient Indian Science and Technology?
Lecture 4 - Glimpses of Ancient Indian Science and Technology
Lecture 5 - Brief Review of Ancient Indian Scriptures
Lecture 6 - Basic Principles of carrying out science and technology
Lecture 7 - Arrays of Physics, chemistry and Indoor games
Lecture 8 - Marvels of Ancient Indian Technology
Lecture 9 - Introduction to Indian Agriculture
Lecture 10 - Problems arising due to modern agricultural practices
Lecture 11 - Pesticides and soil degradation
Lecture 12 - Agriculture - A Primary Productive Activity
Lecture 13 - An Agricultural Tools - A Plough
Lecture 14 - Soil and seeds
Lecture 15 - Sowing Methods
Lecture 16 - Indigenous cattle and manuring
Lecture 17 - Ancient Indian Textile Technology
Lecture 18 - Handlooms and Charkha
Lecture 19 - Different types of Handlooms
Lecture 20 - Ancient Rural Indian Housing
Lecture 21 - Thatched Roof House
Lecture 22 - Rural Walls and Roof materials
Lecture 23 - Indus Valley and Harappan Civilization
Lecture 24 - First and Second of Indian Civilization
Lecture 25 - Town topologies and Brick and Tile making process
Lecture 26 - Availability of Water and Freshwater
Lecture 27 - Ancient Indian Wells
Lecture 28 - Temple Water tanks and Dams
Lecture 29 - Tank Irrigation system and Rainwater Harvesting
Lecture 30 - Waterbodies - Lakes and Canals
Lecture 31 - Sluices and Embankments
Lecture 32 - World of Materials
Lecture 33 - Metals - Gold Silver Lead
Lecture 34 - History of Copper
Lecture 35 - Iron during Vedic period
Lecture 36 - Iron smelting process in ancient India
Lecture 37 - Iron and Steel crafts in ancient India
Lecture 38 - Extraction and smelting of Zinc in Ancient India
Lecture 39 - Metal Casting in Ancient India
Lecture 40 - Glass Technology in Ancient India