Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture
Project of History of Indian science and civilization is a project initiated by the Centre for Studies in Civilizations under the editorship of Professor D. P. Chattopadhyaya in India. The series also contains 20 monographs. PHISPC is a large-scale literary project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The goal of the project is to publish fifty volumes of books and anthologies, thirty of which will be major volumes, and twenty of which are to be monographs. According to the last update on the projects website, seven volumes and eleven monographs have been published, and in the financial year 2001-02, 7-8 more volumes were to be published, as well as one monograph.
Volumes
A project aimed at corroborating the Indian traditions with the extant Archaeological Remains of India on completion has now been published in Germany, in September 2010. This work is entirely Archaeology Based that are in situ and hence - verifiable. The Book also reports about the whereabouts of 150 Palm leaf manuscripts of great antiquity; AND, also takes the non-Hindu readers into the store houses of Hindu shrines - that are out of bounds for the non-Hindus. "Indian Ancient Sciences" ; Lap Lambert; Germany. The volumes are divided thus:
A sub-project in the larger project is Consciousness Science, Society, Value, and Yoga with five planned volumes :
Volume 1. Levels of Reality
Volume 2. Theories of Natural and Life Sciences
Volume 3. Natural and Cultural Sciences
Volume 4. Science, Technology, Philosophy and Yoga
Volume 5. Yoga
Volume 6. "tantra Sadhana"
Monographs
The Monograph series of PHISPC has 20 planned volumes on different aspects of science, philosophy, and the arts. Thirteen of these volumes have already appeared:
Volume 1. Philosophy and Culture in Historical Perspective edited by D. P. Chattopadhyaya and Ravinder Kumar
Volume 2. Some Aspects of Indi's Philosophical and Scientific Heritage edited by D. P. Chattopadhyaya and Ravinder Kumar
Volume 3. Mathematics, Astronomy and Biology in Indian Tradition edited by D. P. Chattopadhyaya and Ravinder Kumar
Volume 4. Language, Logic and Science in India edited by D. P. Chattopadhyaya and Ravinder Kumar
Volume 5. Primal Spirituality of the Vedas: Its Renewal and Renaissance by R. Balasubramanian
Volume 6. Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, Technology, Philosophy and Culture edited by D. P. Chattopadhyaya and Ravinder Kumar
Volume 7. Ancient Yoga and Modern Science by T.R. Anantharaman
Volume 8. Prolegomena to any Future Historiography of Cultures and Civilizations by Daya Krishna
Volume 9. On Rational Historiography by V. Shekhawat
Volume 10. Science and Spirituality: A Quantum Integration edited by Amit Goswami and Maggie Goswami
Volume 11. Kautiliya Arthasastra Revisited by S.N. Metal
Volume 12. Ways of Understanding the Human Past by D. P. Chattopadhyaya
Volume 13. ''The Architecture of Knowledge by Subhash Kak
