| Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Chapter Author | Page No. |
| Introduction | Rattan lal Hangloo | 1 |
| Narmada Homo Erectus: The Most Primitive Human Fossil of India | Arun Sonakia | 12 |
| megalithic High Tin Bronzes | Sharada Srinivasan | 17 |
| Crafts on the Move? The case of the Megaliths of peninsular India | jaya menon | 26 |
| In Search of technology: Journey from Ai Khanum to Mathura Via taxila (200 BC- AD 300) | Suchandra Ghosh | 41 |
| Architecture and technological Advancement: A case Study of Select Forts of Deccan | M.N. Rajesh and M. Ramakrishna | 51 |
| A Social History of a Minor Technology: The Tradition of bronzes, Brass, bell metal and Dokra Manufacture in Bengal | Nupur Dasgupta | 63 |
| Craft Technologies and Craft Communities in Peninsular India: An Overview of Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries | Vijaya Ramaswamy | 85 |
| Glimpses of Craft Technology in Kashmir | Rattan Lal Hangloo | 103 |
| Textile Technology in medieval Orissa: A Case Study of production and Export During Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | K.N. Sethi | 117 |
| Hydraulics and water Management at Fatepur Sikri | Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi | 131 |
| Air Dynamics and Building Construction in medieval India: A case Study of Sheesh Mahal of Farrukhnagar | S.S. Subodh | 147 |
| Minting Technology in Mughal India | Najaf haider | 162 |
| Massive Forge-Welded Iron Canons of India | R. Balasubramaniam | 190 |
| Scientific Attitudes in medieval North India: Context, nature and Articulation (AD 1000-1500) | Surinder Singh | 211 |
| Mining and Metallurgy in medieval Deccan | S. Jay Krishnan | 228 |
| Science and Islam: From Pluralism to Religious Essentialism | S. Irfan Habib | 238 |
| The Needham-hora Controversy: Disagreements over the Chronology and Approach to the History of Science | Dhruv Raina | 249 |
| Building Interdisciplinary Scientific Specialties A case of the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, IISc, Bangalore | Debasmita Patra, E. Haribabu and P.K. Babu | 262 |
| technology of defence Production in India Under British Rule: Cossipore factory in the Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries | Arun Bandopadhyay | 284 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru and Science and technology: The 1958 Scientific Policy Resolution Reconsidered | Nasir Tyabji | 300 |