Indian Tradition
India's contribution to science is huge and varied. It is both ancient and modern. Ancient Indian scientists with their imagination, rigor of thought and keen observation contributed to almost all branches of science. What is given here is only a brief sketch of the long and glorious tradition of science. The Indians of scientific thought and can be attributed to Islam. The various branches of science, such as phonetics, grammar, prosody, etymology astronomy and medicine are regarded as ancillary subjects of the Vedas (vedangas). Indian scientific tradition progressed to the 18th century AD.

Vedic tradition
The contents of Vedas is mainly religious and animists. Thus, at the beginning of the Vedic times science was not what it is today. Early thinkers about the world being governed by 'order' The 'order', they depended on the gods and do not exist in itself. The Indian philosophy has its roots in the Vedas and, therefore, is spiritual. But he stressed the need to practice the truth. Even in the early Vedic thinkers felt the need to get away from thinking purely animists. This is deducted from the song of the "establishment" in the early Vedas. In this song, the poet and philosopher, traces the origin of the universe not to the work of any God, but a matter of paramount importance. At that time, which were dominated by the gods and goddesses, and this was really a bold statement.

Tantric Tradition

This tradition has fostered some branches of science and contribute to the development of natural philosophy. These philosophers identified body and soul with a concern in purely physical terms. The human body has been regarded as an expression of micro whole universe. Since physical body, the whole universe was considered physical. Just as the human body is the result of sexual union, the universe was also condidered as the result of the union between male and female principles. Although tantrism is accompanied by occultism and superstition, its contribution to the physical speculation can not be ignored.

Out of the tantric tradition grew the philosophy of the Sankhya school. This first considered the universe in terms of one principle. Prakriti and later in terms of two principles prakritti and purusha. It adopted an evolutionary view towards the universe. The sankhya school contributed to the consolidation of natural philosophical thinking in India.

This school advance the cause of speculation naturalist. This is founded by kanaada. The vaishesika philosophy of the universe designed to accommodate seven natural and semi-physical principles. He developed a sophisticated atomic theory. The charvaka (materialistic) thinkers, Buddhists and philosophers Jain also contributed to the evolution of physical speculations about the universe.

(The culture of India has been shaped by the long history of India, its unique geography and absorption of customs, traditions and ideas of both immigrants and invaders, while preserving its ancient heritage of civilization of the Indus. India, the great diversity of cultural practices, languages, customs and traditions are examples of this unique co-mingling in the past five millinnea. India is also the birthplace of many religious systems such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism and who have had a great influence not only in India but also in the rest of the world. Since the twelfth century, after the Islamic conquest and occupation European culture of India has been influenced by the Persian, Arabic, Turkish and English cultures. The different religions and multi-hued traditions of India, which was created with these groupings have influenced Southeast Asia and other parts of the world.

The oldest literary and oral traditions were mostly transmitted through the descendants by the citizens. Later, however, they have been transcribed. Most of these spring from the Hindu tradition are represented by sacred works such as the Vedas, the epics Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Tamil Sangam and the now defunct Kannada literature written Prabhrita (650 CE) and Chudamani (Jewel Crest EC-650 or earlier, a verse 96000 comment on the logic) represent some of India's oldest literary traditions. Many Buddhist sutras and Jain work is Prakrit languages like Pali.)