E5 - World's First Veterinary Hospital

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Ashoka the Great 300 BCE erected the first known veterinary hospitals of the world. He arranged the cultivation of herbal medicines for men and animals in his empire and adjoining knigdos. In a famous text Arthashastra, composed by Kautilya, the guide of Chandragupt Maurya, a lot of information is available about different animals, grazing lands, rules of meat science, and veteinary jurisprudence. This knowledge flourished during the great Hindu kings of the Gupta period upto 800 CE before Islamic followers invaded India.

Director: Satyaprakash Upadhyay

E1 - C.V. Raman
5 min
CV Raman was a famous Indian Physicist. He discovered a light scattering phenomenon which later came to be known as the Raman effect and for this study he received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for it. With this win Raman became the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.
E2 - Chola Navy
5 min
Rukhma Bai was an Indian physician and feminist. She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India as well as being involved in a landmak legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888. The case raised significant public debate across several topics, which most prominently included law vs. tradition, social reform vs. conservatism and feminism in both Britishruled India and England. This ultimately contributed to the Age of Consent Act, 1891.
E3 - Rukhma Bai
5 min
Rukhma Bai was an Indian physician and feminist. She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India as well as being involved in a landmak legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888. The case raised significant public debate across several topics, which most prominently included law vs. tradition, social reform vs. conservatism and feminism in both Britishruled India and England. This ultimately contributed to the Age of Consent Act, 1891.
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6 min
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5 min
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26 January 2023 | 4 min
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4 min
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4 min
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5 min
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6 min
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