Development of Knowledge in Pre-Colonial India: A Peep through the Lens of Historical Epistemology

Abstract

Knowledge is a term semantically so entrenched that nobody feels like asking what it means. Let us define it as awareness of what, when, where, who, how and why with or without confirmation. Possession of the skill or craft to perform an act or produce an artefact is also a kind of knowledge. It is impossible to delineate the sequential development of knowledge in time, even out of its orally or literally articulated and codified type.