Traditional Knowledge

The growing problems in providing adequate drinking water to urban populations is a consequence of the lack of long-term planning and inefficient management of urban water usage.

Publication Date:

27/08/1994

Author(s): M S Rathore, V Ratna Reddy, S Ramanathan

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

pp:

2272-2274

Tags:

Urban Water Supply, Rajasthan, Jaipur (T), Bharatpur (T), Udaipur (T), Ajmer (T), Jodhpur (T), Water Demand, Water Distribution, Urban Water Harvesting, Traditional Knowledge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Pollution

India

'Nature's molecules are complex; the synthetic chemist can hardly make them'

Work has started on a gigantic database of medicinal and aromatic plants from knowledge handed down through tradition. The Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), a Bangalore-base NGO, is busy building a countrywide network of tr

Publication Date:

30/04/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940431

pp:

0

Tags:

Traditional Knowledge, India

India

Inundated by colonial misconceptions

The benefits that can be derived from controlling flood waters intelligently have been wasted, largely because of wrong, archaic notions about the floods can play, which have persisted since colonial times.

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Dams, Flood Control, Traditional Knowledge, India, Orissa (Odisha)

India

A dying tradition

Dearth of knowledge has frustrated attempts to revive a traditional but viable method of making iron.

Publication Date:

14/01/1994

Author(s): Rakesh Kalshian

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940115

pp:

0

Tags:

Iron, Traditional Knowledge, India

India

TRADITION IN ACTION

DR COMPUTER As scholars expounded on the significance of traditional sciences, a computer in the pandal outside prescribed lifestyles to the more practical-minded. The diagnostic system was a

Publication Date:

14/01/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940115

pp:

0

Tags:

Air Transport, Traditional Knowledge, Religious Beliefs, Ayurveda, Technology, Information, Myths, India, Computers

India

Science of the Common people

A recent congress highlighted the relevance of people oriented science and technology such as the management of water, forests and agriculture.

Publication Date:

14/01/1994

Author(s): Amit Mitra & Rakesh Kalshian

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940115

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, Technology, India

India

Lessons from the colonial past

Twenty-two years ago, the publication of a book, Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century, by an unknown Gandhian, DHARAMPAL, took the academic world by storm. Until then, science in India was thought to be a Western import. Apologists of the Bri

Publication Date:

14/01/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940115

pp:

0

Tags:

Traditional Knowledge, Appropriate Technology, Mahatma Gandhi, India

Poverty