Towards Unification of Modern Science and Indian Ancient Science

Science is a secular discipline. Here the term secular has to be taken in its broadest sense. This means that the scientific study of the nature is not dependent upon any particular nation, race, colour of the people, geography, religion, social customs, ways of living, language, and the era. Thus the scientific exploration of nature may be expressed in different languages, in different terminology, in different systems of measurements. But internally the laws pertaining to a given aspect of nature have to be equivalent. From this point of view, really one cannot classify Western science or Indian science, modern science or ancient science. But because of long separations of time and distance between the two groups of humanity exploring nature and expressing in different ways, a distinction of modern science and Indian ancient science is appropriate. When we talk of modern science, it means the science that evolved in the West after the renaissance. And when we talk of ancient science, it means the science evolved in India prior to the arrival of Britishers.