Talk:List of South Asian inventions and discoveries/Draft list for interested editors

This list refers to technological achievements which took place in South Asia up to 1950. The area being considered encompasses the modern-day states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in keeping with the UN Geoscheme.

Neolithic Period

 * Bow drill:
 * Dentistry

Indus Valley Civilisation


The Indus Valley Civilisation is a lost ancient civilization which flourished in the Bronze Age around the Indus River basin in what is today mainly Pakistan and the western parts of the Republic of India. It is also called the Harappan Civilization, after one of its the centres, Harappa.

Inventions



 * Bangle:
 * Button, ornamental:
 * Dice:
 * Dike:
 * Dock (maritime):
 * Dyeing:
 * Puppets and Puppetry:
 * Ruler: The weights and measures of the Indus civilization also reached Persia and Central Asia, where they were further modified.
 * Stepwell:

Discoveries


Agriculture Science
 * Ivory:
 * Cotton:
 * Metrology:

Innovations

 * Public bathing:
 * Urban planning:

From Iron Age until 1950



 * Calico:
 * Carding, devices for:
 * Chaturanga and Shatranj:
 * Chintz:
 * Coherer, iron and mercury:
 * Cotton Gin, single-roller:
 * Crescograph:
 * Crucible steel:
 * Dental drill, and dental surgery:
 * Incense clock:
 * India ink, carbonaceous pigment for:
 * Indian clubs:
 * Kabaddi:
 * Ludo:
 * Muslin:
 * Pajamas:
 * Palampore:
 * Playing cards:
 * Prayer flags:
 * Prefabricated home and movable structure: The first prefabricated homes and movable structures were invented in 16th century Mughal India by Akbar the Great. These structures were reported by Arif Qandahari in 1579.
 * Rocket artillery, iron-cased and metal-cylinder:
 * Seamless celestial globe:
 * Snakes and ladders:
 * Stupa:
 * Toe stirrup:
 * Wootz steel:

Agriculture

 * Cashmere wool:
 * Diamond Gemstones:
 * Indigo dye:
 * Jute, cultivation of:
 * Sugar, cultivation of:
 * Orange, cultivation of:
 * Black pepper, cultivation of:
 * Chicken, domestication of:
 * Mango, cultivation of:

Mathematics

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 * Algebra
 * Algebraic abbreviations:
 * Binomial coefficients:
 * Brahmagupta–Fibonacci identity, Brahmagupta formula, Brahmagupta's interpolation formula, Brahmagupta matrix, and Brahmagupta theorem
 * Chakravala method
 * Diophantine equation and Indeterminate equation:
 * Fibonacci numbers
 * Hindu-Arabic numeral system
 * Infinite series for Sine, Cosine, and arctangent
 * Negative numbers
 * Pascal triangle
 * Pell's equation, integral solution for
 * Pi, infinite series:
 * Ramanujan theta function, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan summation, Ramanujan graph and Ramanujan's sum
 * Sign convention
 * Trigonometric functions, adapted from Greek

Medicine

 * Cataract surgery: lso introduced into China from India.
 * Inoculation and Variolation:
 * Leprosy:
 * Plastic surgery:
 * Stones:
 * Visceral leishmaniasis, treatment of:

Mining

 * Diamond:
 * Zinc:

Science

 * Atomism:
 * Bhatnagar-Mathur Magnetic Interference Balance:
 * Bhabha scattering:
 * Bose–Einstein statistics, condensate and Boson:
 * Cosmic ray showers, theoretical explanation of:
 * Formal language and formal grammar:
 * Linguistics:
 * Mahalanobis distance:
 * Mercurous Nitrite:
 * Raman effect:
 * Saha ionization equation:

Innovations

 * Iron working: