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About the talk:
Over many thousands of years, the brilliant celestial nightly displays over the unpolluted dark skies of ancient India led to astronomy becoming an integral part of the rhythm of life, paralleling the cosmic cycles, as ancient Indians sought to make sense of the skies, leading to building up of an enormous corpus of astronomy knowledge. In this talk, the speaker highlights several fascinating facts about ancient Indian astronomy, bringing to fore the deliberate distortions injected by Western agencies.

About the Speaker:
Raj Vedam holds a doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering with many years of multi-disciplinary experience, and has developed a strong research interest in the history of sciences, mathematics and technology. His research shows unacknowledged but significant contributions of ancient Indians to sciences and math, impacting several civilizations over different periods of time. While Western texts on the subject enforce a parochial narrative sourcing all sciences and math from ancient Greece or Rome or Egypt, Raj Vedam presents contrary facts and evidence to show their indebtedness to the Indian civilization. He has presented his findings in over 200 public talks, several teacher training workshops, several research publications, and offers two courses on the same at Hindu University of America.

Topics covered:
0:00 Prerequisite: To understand antiquity of Indian Civilization
1:00 Frameworks imposed on Historiography - Colonial, Euro-centric, Missionaries, Socialist Academia bias, Marxist
3:46 Structural Problems in Indian History - Enforced narration vs Evidence based narration
4:30 Need for Scientific, Rational & Logical analysis of Data, Models, Methods & Claims
5:55 Model based analysis of historiography
7:23 Early Corruption over 300 years : The Claims & today's Corruptions
8:56 Impact of spurious Aryan Invasion/Migration narrative
11:00 Sample colonial scholars & Translators of Indian Astronomy
12:13 Fascinating Facts of Indian Astronomy - From Comets to Galaxies
26:37 Fascinating Facts of Indian Astronomy - Measuring Precession
40:22 Fascinating Facts of Indian Astronomy - Extraordinary Accuracy in Planet Modelling
48:41 Fascinating Facts of Indian Astronomy - Great antiquity of parts of the Surya Siddhanta
53:26 Fascinating Facts of Indian Astronomy - Ancient Astronomical Observations
1:13:10 Fascinating Facts of Indian Astronomy - Indian-Greek stories
1:18:40 Concluding remarks
Q&A
1:22:20 Vedas being the source point of all Indian Knowledge Systems?
1:25:15 Indian astronomy and Indian texts - how to reconciliate? Why different dates being brought up by different Indic chronologers currently?
1:33:35 Uttarayan and Makar Sankranti connect?
1:37:10 Why horoscopes signs have Greek names?
1:41:40 Why don't Indic studies get State patronage in India?
1:43:15 Written records of mathematical calculations?

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