A Concise History of Science in India c2.3

c2.3

The genesis of the current interest in the history of science may be traced to the Symposium on the History of Sciences in South-East Asia held in Delhi in 1950 under the joint auspices of the UNESCO and the Indian National Science Academy (then the National Institute of Sciences of India). The Symposium emphasized the need for an integrated study of the history of science in India and for straightening out the chronological problems. It favoured the co-operation of scientists and historians in an area of endeavour where the methods of their divergent disciplines could be most fruitfully applied.