Introduction to Indian knowledge system (Mahadevan et al. 2022) - Weekend Book Review

English Podcast starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:21:11Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:37:15Danish Podcast Starts at 00:51:36ReferenceMahadevan, B., Bhat, V. R., & NAGENDRA, P. R. (2022). Introduction to Indian knowledge system: concepts and applications. https://www.phindia.com/Books/BookDetail/9789391818203Swayam IKS Course: https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/imb26_mg13/previewIKS Swayam Instructors are Prof. B. Mahadevan, Dr. Vinayak Rajat Bhat, Dr. R Venkata RaghavanYoutube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherConnect on linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/Welcomе to Revise and Resubmit, and to our episode series, “Weekend Book Review.” 🎙️📚✨I’m sitting with a book that feels less like a textbook and more like a door you forgot was in your own house, the kind you pass every day until one day you place your hand on the knob and notice it is warm.Today’s book is Introduction To Indian Knowledge System: Concepts and Application (January 2022, PHI Learning). And yes, it is written for engineering and science students, but it is also written for anyone who has ever wondered why “modern” so often means “elsewhere,” or why knowledge gets treated like a passport stamped by only a few countries. 🇮🇳🧠🔍The authors bring serious credibility, but what I appreciate is how they use that credibility to invite, not intimidate. B. Mahadevan, Professor at IIM Bangalore and founding Vice-Chancellor of Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, has lived at the junction where ancient traditions and contemporary systems actually meet, not in slogans, but in programs and classrooms. Vinayak Rajat Bhat, Professor at the Centre of IKS at Chanakya University, writes as someone who has spent years teaching Vyākaraṇa, Āyurveda, and Arthaśāstra, with the kind of honors that quietly signal devotion to craft.Dr. Nagendra Pavana is mentored in Vyakarana Shastra in both prachina and navya systems by renowned scholars. Dr. Nagendra Pavana has a PhD in Vyakarana. He has been working as Asst. Professor at the School of Vedic Knowledge Systems at Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeetha, Kochi for the past 6 years. Currently he is working on a project with IIT Bombay under Prof. Ramasubramanian. A special mention of R. Venkata Raghavan from IIT Bhubaneswar brings the humanities and critical thinking muscle, the part of the mind that asks, “Fine, but how do we know what we know?” 🧩 And one of the key instructors of Swayam IKS.Structurally, the book moves with a clear intention: first, it names the key concepts of Indian Knowledge Systems, then it builds foundational ideas that can travel across domains, and after that it gets practical, moving into science applications, engineering applications, and finally the wider topics that give all of it social and philosophical depth. Along the way you meet the familiar headlines, the decimal system, ππ, Sanskrit grammar, but also the less headline-friendly achievements: metallurgy that had real teeth, astronomical instrumentation, Ayurveda and early surgery, town planning, and models of consciousness that refuse to treat the inner life as a side quest. ⚙️🔭🧮🏛️What the book seems to want, gently but firmly, is a correction of narrative. Not a chest-thump, not a grievance. Big thanks to Mahadevan et al., and to PHI Learning, for making this work available and accessible. 🙏📖If you enjoy “Weekend Book Review,” please subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, and also to my YouTube channel, Weekend Researcher. 🎧✅📺You can also find this show on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast. 🍎🎙️Now here’s what I can’t stop thinking about: if Indian Knowledge Systems are not just a set of ancient answers but a different way of asking questions, what would change in your own work if you truly let that questioning method reorganize your idea of “modern” knowledge? 🤔✨