This text book is a culmination of multiple efforts of the authors to fill in the gap for offering a required course on Indian knowledge systems recently mandated by AICTE moreover the new education policy has also provided a clear trajectory for imparting IKS in the higher education curriculum, necessitating a book of this kind in several higher education in the country in the days to come.
The book seeks to introduce the epistemology and ontology of IKS to the engineering and science students in a way they can relate, appreciate and explore further should there be a keen interest in the matter. After a brief section on the key concepts of IKS, the remaining part of the book traces IKS and brings out the applications. After a formal and concise introduction to IKS, the book provides certain foundational concepts applicable across all domains of science and engineering. These form the second part. The science applications are laid out in part 3, engineering applications in part 4 and other important topic in the final part of the book.
The authors have rich expertise and background in both mainstream issues and traditional knowledge to present IKS in a contextually relevant fashion. They have delicately balanced the why or how if IKS and what of IKS and the what of IKS. Although the book has been primarily for use by the engineering institutions, the structure and the contents also address the requirement in other university systems (liberal arts, medicine, science and management).