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List of Indian inventions and discoveries
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<p>This list of Indian inventions and discoveries details the inventions, scientific discoveries and contributions of India, including those from the historic <a href="/facts/Indian_subcontinent/0XUWGXpx">Indian subcontinent</a> and the modern-day <a href="/facts/Republic_of_India/QW4TV4sy">Republic of India</a>. It draws from the whole <a href="/facts/Culture_of_India/GjHPLXPR">cultural</a> and <a href="/facts/History_of_Indian_science_and_technology/BhwzGDTn">technological of India|cartography</a>, <a href="/facts/History_of_metallurgy_in_the_Indian_subcontinent/JoTxm18v">metallurgy</a>, <a href="/facts/Indian_logic/VPHHNtEU">logic</a>, <a href="/facts/Indian_mathematics/l9f6ke00">mathematics</a>, <a href="/facts/History_of_measurement_systems_in_India/gGMfau9M">metrology</a> and <a href="/facts/Mining_in_India/DJJb1htB">mineralogy</a> were among the branches of study pursued by its scholars. During recent times <a href="/facts/Science_and_technology_in_the_Republic_of_India/BpquPntF">science and technology in the Republic of India</a> has also focused on <a href="/facts/Automobile_industry_in_India/4wPe5XEY">automobile engineering</a>, <a href="/facts/Information_technology_in_India/TKb7zwMv">information technology</a>, <a href="/facts/Communications_in_India/SrA9nILG">communications</a> as well as research into <a href="/facts/Indian_Space_Research_Organisation/CdAoFQTL">space</a> and <a href="/facts/Indian_Antarctic_Programme/eAJf6K1h">polar</a> technology. </p><p>For the purpose of this list, the <a href="/facts/Invention/P3LdUHBY">inventions</a> are regarded as technological firsts developed within territory of India, as such does not include foreign technologies which India acquired through contact or any Indian origin living in foreign country doing any breakthroughs in foreign land. It also does not include not a new idea, indigenous alternatives, low-cost alternatives, technologies or discoveries developed elsewhere and later invented separately in India, nor inventions by Indian emigres or <a href="/facts/Indian_diaspora/9styV6rp">Indian diaspora</a> in other places. Changes in minor concepts of design or style and artistic innovations do not appear in the lists. </p>