STIMULATING
INDIAN
KNOWLEDGE
SYSTEM, ARTS
AND CULTURE
CULTURAL HERITAGE
IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
INDO – GREECO ROMAN IDEAS BUILT IN 544 A.D
BLEND OF MATHURA AND GANDHARA SCHOOL OF ART
DEPICTED BUDDHIST LANDSCAPE FROM 1ST -13TH CENTURY A.D
ANCIENT INDIAN CALENDAR
THIS WAS INTRODUCED IN 79 C.E. (SAKA)ADOPTED IN 1957
GREGORIAN CALENDAR 1592 ; INTRODUCED BY POPE GREGORY XIII
ASHOKA EDICTS
ARAMAIC SCRIPT ----- INDUS SCRIPT -----BRAHMIC SCRIPT -------PRAKRIT
OLDEST SCRIPTS IN INDIA IS BRAHMIC SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN ON THE ASHOKA PILLAR IN SAARNATH IN 260 B.C.
WORD LIPI
BRAHMI SCRIPT
File:Coins of Agathocles and
Pantaleon used for the
decipherment of the Brahmi
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ANCIENT CITY
VARANASI - OLDEST CITY AND IS 5000 YEARS OLD
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UJJAIN
NALANDA
RAMESHWARAM
SHANTI NIKETAN
ANCIENT HERBS
MEDICINAL AND FOOD : 8TH CENTURY B.C
CINNAMON
CUMIN
CLOVE
CARDAMOM
ORAL TRADITIONS
RIGVEDA COMPOSED IN 3500
 LEGENDS
 FOLK TALES
 PROVERBS
 MUSIC & SONG
OLDEST ART FORMS
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2500 B.C. AND 1800 B.C -TERRACOTA BRONZE FIGURES
MITHILA ART ONE OF THE OLDEST
MADHUBANI
WORLI – 2500 B.C FROM THE WESTERN GHATS OF INDIA
TANJORE
GOND
KALAMKARI
CHERIYAL
KALIGHAT
OLDEST DANCE FORMS
 BHARATNATYAM ORIGINATED FROM TAMIL
NADU
 ODISSI – OLDEST SURVIVING INDIAN
CLASSICAL DANCE STARTED AROUND 2ND
CENTURY B.C., PART OF THE NATYA SHASTRA
HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
AJANTA AND ELLORA CAVES
ANCIENT LANGUAGES
LANGUAGE
WRITING SYSTEM
HINDI
DEVNAGIRI
ENGLISH
LATIN
KASHMIRI
SHARDA
PUNJABI
GURMUKHI
TAMIL- OLDEST LANGAUGE IN THE WORLD 500 B.C.
ABUGIDA/ BRAHMI
SANSKRIT – 3500 B.C.
DEVNAGIRI
SANSKRIT
OUT OF THE SEVEN OLDEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD, TWO ARE FROM INDIA SANSKRIT AND TAMIL
SANSKRIT WAS ESENTIALLY AN ORAL LANGUAGE WHEN THE RIGVEDA WAS COMPOSED IN 3500 BC
IT WAS ORIGINATED AS A WRITTEN LANGUAGE IN 1700 1200 BCE
PANNIN CONNECTED TO VEDIC SANSKRIT IN 500 B.C.
TEACH SUBHASHAS /SHOLKAS WHICH ARE ESENTIALLY ARE ONE- TWO LINERS ON LIFE AND LIVING
HELP IN MULTICULTURAL AND MULTILINGUAL RESOURCE
‘UDAR CHARITRA NAAM TU VASUDHAIV KUTUMBAKAM’
TAGORE – NOBLE LAUREATE
 CREATED SHANTI NIKETAN
 TAGORE BELIEFS
 TRUE MODERNISM IS NOT WESTERN ATTIRE
 ROTE SCHOOL STRUCTURE WHERE CHILDREN ARE
INTERNED IT IS :
A) IMAGINATION
B) PURSUIT OF SCIENCE
C) ROOTEDNESS IN CULTURE AND ART
D) NOT UNREASONABLE TRADITIONALISM
 STARTED AN EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOLING IN
SHANTINIKETAN : NATURE, EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
MAHATMA GANDHI
 THE GREATEST BRAND AMBASSADORS OF THE WORLD
 CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT BRANDING IN THROUGH
HISTORY AND NOT INDUSTRY
 BAPU’S ARTEFACTS WERE SOLD FOR MILLION POUNDS
SYMBOLIZING CONNECTING OUR PAST TO THE PRESENT
THE HERITAGE OF A COMMUNITY LOST ACROSS TIME : MATTAN TEMPLE IN ANANATNAG