For centuries the history of India has been offered up to us by European scholars in search of the origins of their own civilizations. India was a place largely unknown to them, and, by their reckoning, too far away to have had any real impact on what they considered to be their own cradle of intellectual life. Professor Kak is among a group of scholars now attempting to redress this imbalance by providing a new theoretical structure for examining the origins of Indian scientific knowledge. His book will reopen old controversies and help reshape this debate in ways that we can all welcome. - A. David Napier, Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury College, Author of "Masks, Transformation, and Paradox" and "Foreign Bodies".

Professor Subhash Kak always manages to surprise with his highly original scientific forays into ancient Indic wisdom. In this book, he does away with the flimsy indological model of viewing the Vedic deities as representing natural phenomena. In place of this lopsided interpretation, he offers a more sophisticated understanding based on neuroscience. In doing so, he has opened a promising new door in the East-West dialogue. -Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., Founder-president of Yoga Research and Education Center, Author of "The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga" and "The Yoga Tradition".