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".