The Great Ideas of Indian Civilization - Michel Danino -
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- About the Speaker: Michel Danino
Born in France in 1956, Michel Danino has been living in India since 1977 and is an Indian citizen. An independent student of Indian civilization, he authored The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati (Penguin India, 2010), a multidisciplinary study of the Vedic Sarasvati river, and Indian Culture and India’s Future (DK Printworld, 2011). The Dawn of Indian Civilization and the Elusive Aryans is under preparation.
Michel Danino has lectured across India on many aspects of Indian civilization and culture. Twice a scholar-in-residence at IIT Kanpur (2011 and 2014), he was a visiting faculty at IIM Ranchi and since 2011 has been guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar, where he has assisted the setting up of an Archaeological Sciences Centre and given courses exploring ancient India’s heritage.
Michel Danino co-edited (with Prof. Kapil Kapoor) a two-volume textbook on “Knowledge Traditions and Practices of India” for a CBSE elective course for class XI and XII. As convener of the International Forum for India’s Heritage, he has been coordinating a project to produce a multimedia educational DVD on Science and Technology in Ancient India. He is also a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research.
His other interests include nature conservation, a field in which he was especially active during his stay in the Nilgiris (1982-2003).
TIMELINE:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:03:41 - Patriotism vs. National Pride
00:06:13 - Stereotypes and Misconceptions about India
00:08:41 - The Indus-Sarasvati Civilization
00:08:57 - Highlights of the Harappan civilization
00:14:14 - Early Experiments in Democracy
00:19:14 - Peaceful Cultural Integration across India
00:19:55 - The “Unity” of “Unity in Diversity”
00:21:29 - The Institution of Pilgrimage
00:22:14 - Features of India’s Cultural Integration
00:24:45 - Ethnographic Data in Mahabharata
00:26:05 - Was India created by the British in 1947?
00:26:29 - Early Political Unity
00:28:00 - India’s Interface with Other Civilizations
00:33:06 - India’s Perspectives on Nature
00:38:30 - Practical Attitudes of Indian Ecological Traditions
00:40:41 - Svabhava and Svadharma: Spiritual Freedom and Acceptance, Pluralism
00:42:22 - Scientific & Technological Advances
00:44:40 - Spiritualization of Art and Literature
00:46:30 - Systems of Yoga: Self-Exploration, Self-Discovery, Self-Fulfilment
00:48:48 - The 19th-Century Awakening in Spirituality, Art and Science
00:50:20 - Rejuvenating 19th-century Western Literature, Thought and Humanism
00:51:28 - Indian Spirituality is Compatible with Modern Science
00:53:47 - Resilience of Indian Civilization
00:54:44 - Few things India did not contribute to the World
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41:58 I'm a parsi and I share the same views on the word tolerance. To this point I will agree that the teachings of Sanatan Dharma promote acceptance. We were accepted when we fled. That is the reason why refugee jews and parsis are still jews and parsis in India and persecution free.
The Parsis and the Jews are the best minorities of India , unlike others . They never went against the land and the people who took them in . We are glad to have you with us .
A very huge Congratulations to Mr. Danino for such an entirely different look on Indian civilization.This lecture is a great poineering guide,to start the stalled the search for ALTIMATE TRUTH. tHANK YOU SIR.
This person is worthy to be a true Indian. Very happy to say so.
Jai hind. Richly enlighten by what you have portraited. Thanks a lot.
What you say is true, of course. I will only add that he is a truer Indian than many deracinated wretches who diss on our motherland at every opportunity.
There are frustrated people in every religion. They need not be taken seriously. Speaking is an outlet for them. Let them enjoy.
"Christianity & Islam rely on BLIND faith; Hinduism the opposite." Jeffrey Armstrong
Deeply penetrating and motivating. The concept of svadhrama is the single most powerful factor of respectfulness . This is the freedom .
Thanks more lectures would be welcome. Strong mathematics and life sciences. Lifemanship and living with nature so important.
Absolutely riveting. When I visited India a few years ago I went to Lothal. There I felt a deep sense of a continuity that is unabated even now on my African home.
You are really a true representative of India! Salute ❤ to you for your deep knowledge about Indian culture ❤
Thank you. Very succinctly explained
I am grateful to the lecturer, like many others, for this fantastic lecture!
hello everyone! Namaste to all..🙏😊
The first written constitution was framed by the Licchavi Dynasty of Vaeshali (in northern Bihar) in ancient India over 2500 years ago. Prior to that, the words of the king were law and kings ruled according to the advice of their ministers. The first republican democracy was established by the Licchaviis. The Licchavi Republic comprised some portion of Muzzaffarpur, portions of Begusharai, Samastipur and Hajipur between the Gandaka and Kamala rivers, all in the present state of Bihar. It was the first democratic state and they had their own written constitution.
The theory of democracy was born out of feelings of revolt against the tyranny of the monarchy exercised by the feudal kings. The history of democracy is very ancient. History teaches us that it originated during the reign of the Licchavi Dynasty in ancient India. (Dialectical Materialism and Democracy)
The Licchavis of Vaishali abolished the monarchy and established the first republic about 2500 years ago. The representatives of the people were known as Licchavis, and they formed an executive body known as Mahalicchavis through elections. The Mahalicchavis controlled the power in Vaishali that was previously controlled by the monarchy. After a few successive stages of monarchy within the Kśatriya Age, the monarchy was gradually transformed into a republic. This transition took place within the Kśatriya Age itself. It is generally claimed that a republic does not function according to the whims of a monarch or a particular group. Rather it functions through a system of peoplesʼ representation who are elected by the pious and trusting wishes of the masses. Gańatantra, or democracy, represents the spirit of government characterized as government of the people, for the people but by the peoplesʼ representatives. Democracy may retain a monarch as a symbolic head of state, like a cosmetic mark on the forehead, as in England or Sweden, or it may not retain it, as in India or the USA. (Democracy and Group-Governed States)
Shri P R Sarkar ( 22 September 1986, Kolkata )
Source: Requirements of an Ideal Constitution
Published in: A Few Problems Solved Part 8
Excellent history lesson for us Indians... thanks a ton❤
Great lecture
Thanks for this wonderful video on Indian ancient history ! AS non Indian but admire of Indian culture, history especially of the ancient India , I am so happy that young generation of Indians are learning their history from Prof. M. Danino, these young men/women will become more aware of their heritage and will build more wisdome based socio-economic India….
Indian Government should present Prof.M.Danino Padma SHIRI….
Nice and Interesting Topic with good information.
Enlightening !
Highly informative!! Thank you! 👏👏👏
Wowww❤❤❤❤
Excellent talk sir!! 🙏
great work.
Brilliant. Hats off to Professor Michel Danino for covering such a vast ground with so much depth. Really wonder how much research must have gone behind this compact, less than one hour presentation. I have taken screenshots of the different slides, for sharing with people who do not have the time to go through the entire video. 🙏🙏🙏
Excellent
Pls make small clips and shorts of this long video and share link for this video in those shorts. Such videos are really undermined with low views.
After a long time you appeared in CZcams. Love listening to you.
Good work
Thank you ❤
thankyou sir
thanku for the lecture sir.
Professor M.Danino has given food for tought, and beyond that for his students to wake up dig deep into their own root. to begin their journey to reviewing BHARAT Culture and civilization back to build a future Bharat, All you young students should grab with both hand and run, and bring back our civilization back. Great man to talk about india. He is true son of Bharat Lord Shiva will love him.
Wow.
GOI should open a separate department to uncover science from Sanskrti Books we have ..
They should also open a university/college for just hindu dharma teaching(that will include everything- arts, commerce, literature, history. science, maths, etc..)
Analytical and informative
Great lecture! I request Dr. Michel Danino to publish any manuscript written originally, maybe in Brahmi script. I assume that translation to any modern script such a Devanagiri may distort the meaning. At the same time, we can bring back the richness of writing systems such as Brahmi and languages like Prakrit, etc. Thanks.
Salute to you Sir 🪷🙏🕉️🙏🪷
Namaste everyone !
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Wonderful
Very pleased to know truth about our enciants but sadly i feel personaly that today we are far away from those truths. Though rigveda has already told us that every thing, every thing chainges contineously science to some extent believes specimen living now and that enciant times could be very different. But many praise for your representation
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Don't forget india is Genious country for ever...no other country doesn't have that much knowledge.....
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He should be an MP in India
Jai bharat
Sorry to say but sound quality is not good. Loss of clarity.
good info but not once he said we are a great civilization..
more lectures on indias contribution to science and maths need to be shown..
Do watch his lectures at IIT Gandhinagar
The definition of “ great” is often misused and India has more precious knowledges like : spirituality, wisdom , karuna that can improve the global societies than conquering neighbors like of Alexander the Great etc , who has massacred millions of people….
Do all people are equal by birth and treated equally during Indic civilization period? Is endogamy practiced with marriages with in same varna during that period?. If so, why some are related to head and many related to feet in reg veda... giving more importance to few.?
I am sorry, the dating of ancient Indian History is wrong. The Mauryans started their reign in 1534 BC, rather than 3rd Century BC.
I have the king-list of Magadha Dynasty dating back to 4,549 years before the Mahabharata War which would mean (4549+3138)= 7687 BC, till the time of Vikramaditya take over in 57 BC.
Pls publish the list. These things need to shared and discussed at large.
Please publish the list of these kings, and the sources of the list.
For example, the list of Magadha kings are given in chapter one, canto 12 of Bhagavata purana. I was told the same list can be found in Vayu purana and Vishnu purana also.
@@karsan6018 Though the Matsya Purana has many errors. The best is Krishna Raja Vrittanta (KRV).
I have read the research on this by Sri Kota Venkatachari Sastry, published in 1955. But not given it's due. Prof TS Narayanmurthy had a personal library containing all these in Chennai.
@@karsan6018 Where to publish? Too long for Facebook
@@upadhyayrathiraj1518 on blog as a series, pls give me your email, I will connect you to right people who can bring it into public(digital forum).
Why is this scholar not talking of Saraswati civilization, when it is proven to be earlier civilization than Harappa?
West has learnt or to be learnt much from Indian Civilization
U missed drug trade in the non indian contributions
Bharat not India. Southern India not South India.
While educated his accent is a little difficult to read through and he could have presented more facts instead of generalizations we all know. Lack of substance but full marks for attempt.
Most of what is claimed is true, except one. At the end of the Harappan civilization, Turks ( Kuru) from central Asia entered India , led by the Babylonians and defeated the ancient imperial power of the Yadava and replaced Sanatan religion with the Semitic religion of Hinduism, manipulating the scriptures, massacared the women and children of the Yadava tribe and replaced Vishnu with Ram (Ramses II) and broke the spine of the Indians, never to recover again, until Mamta defeated the BJP/RSS (Ram rajya), 3200 years after the Kurukshetra war 1500-1200 bc.
Jihadi spotted 🤮
Mumtaz was a brahmin before she jumped in bed with the jihadi termites
And no mention of how jihadists raped the bengali wimen , butchered children nd men 🤣
How can i contact mr danino, i had some questions, can admin provide his email id pls ???
I would add sculpture as a whole section.. also, the creation of erotic poetry/art or the openness with which we viewed sex, and the acceptance of the third gender as important Indian developments too .. but we also need to accept that we are very narrow minded today, and caste is still prevalent. Also we could have used our cultural unity to resist invasion which we didn’t do. which makes me doubt the validity of a unified India in history.
Not Caste, but Varna. Caste is a Portuguese word and concept
@@upadhyayrathiraj1518 either way, the point is not that. the point is we look beyond this archaic practice and way of thinking
@@chaitanya7 caste is not evil see video of puri shankaracharya nishchalanand saraswatiji maharaj on this topic.
It is not caste but greed that made / makes traitors out of Hindus / indians.
Even today tge anti India forces have equal numbers of brahmins, kshatriyas nd dalits .
This is a load of fantasy that has no basis in reality. Erotic is a relative term and such imagery had differing receptions across the land and time of India. Your need to include caste speaks volumes of your internalized self hatred for Hindus. While completely erasing the colonial Christian role in institutionalising Caste in South Asia. All your outrage about modesty culture would go out the drain the moment Hijabs, Niqabs, Burkhas come into discussion. Stop gender Baiting and caste baiting to hate on India.
Is this the real ugly face of Sanatani/Hinduism on the ground today ? Dalit Protest: गुजरात के मेहसाणा में क्यों नाराज़ हैं दलित? czcams.com/video/H17yEj6mZeM/video.html