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Frekuensi pembaruan:
weekly
Panjang audio rata-rata:
12 minutes
Inggris
India
30 episode
sejak 27 Juli 2021
episodic

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Three hundred years before Newton, a Kerala scholar was already writing infinite series for sine and cosine. Why has almost no one heard his name? In fourteenth-century Kerala, Madhava calculated pi to eleven decimal places using nothing but a palm leaf and a metal stylus, coming within four digit…

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The Gupta emperors didn't just conquer kingdoms, they engineered a god. How one dynasty turned Vishnu into the supreme deity to unify an entire civilisation. Around 300 CE, the Gupta dynasty faced a fragmented subcontinent: hundreds of local deities, rival sects, and no shared civilisational identi…
Five centuries before the East India Company, Indian merchants ran the world's first multinationals. How did Britain erase 2,000 years of commercial civilisation? India's merchant guilds — the shrenis, the Ayyavole Ainurruvar, the Jagat Seths — ran banking systems, armed fleets, and trade networks…
They ruled for 400 years, longer than the Mauryas. So why has India's history erased the Western Sakas completely? The Western Kshatrapas , dismissed as mlecchas and outsiders by Gangetic scholars,  were in fact one of the most consequential dynasties in ancient Indian history. They controlled the…
Kalaripayattu is at least a thousand years old, rooted in Kerala's red earth, encoded with combat ethics, medical knowledge, and philosophy that predate modern international law. When Pazhassi Raja's guerrilla warriors bled the East India Company for twelve years, the British understood the danger…
The Gupta Empire solved a problem no civilisation had cracked: how do you unify a billion beliefs without destroying any of them? This is how. Most empires rule through force. The Guptas ruled through something harder to build and impossible to burn,  a shared civilisational story. The Puranic fra…
India solved the Pythagorean theorem 300 years before Pythagoras. Here's the proof that was buried. In 800 BCE, a Vedic priest named Baudhayana recorded geometric principles now called 'Pythagorean' — in Sanskrit, on the Gangetic plain, using ropes and fire altars. The Shulba Sutras are not mythol…
Nalanda's library burned for months. Takshashila & Vallabhi were erased by invaders. Then Macaulay finished the job. Three destructions. One civilisation. Long before Oxford or Harvard, Takshashila and Nalanda were drawing scholars from China, Persia, Korea, and Sri Lanka to study mathematics…
India's medieval navy struck 14 cities across Southeast Asia in one campaign. The empire your history books deleted — the Cholas. A thousand years before modern India debates the Andaman Islands, a Tamil king named Rajendra Chola had already solved the Malacca chokepoint — with a fleet that crosse…
A 23-year-old in 499 CE predicted an eclipse, proved Earth spins — and history erased his name. Why? Aryabhata of Gupta India calculated Pi to four decimal places, proposed Earth's rotation on its axis, and formalised the mathematics the world now calls trigonometry — a thousand years before Europ…
Sanggahan: Podcast dan karya seni yang disematkan pada halaman ini berasal dari Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra, yang merupakan milik pemiliknya dan tidak berafiliasi atau didukung oleh Listen Notes, Inc.