ADITYA KOLACHANA is a post-doctoral researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, studying various aspects of the history of mathematics and astronomy in India. He obtained his PhD in the history of science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Earlier, he worked for over four years with Bain & Company, Clinton Foundation, and Procter & Gamble and also briefly taught finance at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India.

K. MAHESH is a research scientist at the Cell for the Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He acquired his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, in 2010, by working on the Indian astronomy (Siddh¿nta Jyoti¿a). He went to the Centre Nationale de la RechercheScientifique (CNRS), Paris, for doing his post-doctoral research in the history of numerical tables. On returning from Paris, he joined the Samskrit Promotion Foundation, New Delhi, and served there for three years. In 2015, the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, bestowed upon him the Young Historian of Science Award.

K. RAMASUBRAMANIAN is a professor at the Cell for the Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He holds a doctorate degree in theoretical physics, a master's degree in Sanskrit, and a bachelor's degree in engineering-a weird but formidable combination of subjects to do multidisciplinary research. He was honoured with the coveted title "Vidvat Pravara" by the Shankaracharya of Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Karnataka, India, for completing a rigorous course in Advaita Ved¿nta (a 14-semester program), in 2003. He is one of the authors who prepared detailed explanatory notes of the celebrated works Gäita-yuktibh¿¿¿ (rationales in mathematical astronomy), Tantrasägraha and Karäa-paddhati, which bring out the seminal contributions of the Kerala School of Astronomers and Mathematicians. He was conferred with the prestigious award of the Mahä¿i B¿dar¿yäa Vyas Samman by the then President of India, in 2008, and the R.C. Gupta Endowment Lecture Award by the National Academy of Sciences India, in 2010. He is a recipient of several other awards and coveted titles as well. From 2013, he has been serving as an elected council member of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is also a member of various other national and international bodies.

Presents a collection of Professor Kripa Shankar Shukla' papers highlighting the wide range of his scholarship

Consists revised articles of the third unpublished part of "History of Hindu Mathematics" by Bibhutibhusan Datta and Avadhesh Narayan Singh

Includes some of Professor Shukla's reviews of works related to Indian mathematics and astronomy authored by various scholars

Chapter 1. The Oeuvre of Kripa Shankar Shukla.- Chapter 2. Studies in Indian Mathematics: Bh¿skara I to N¿r¿yäa Pä¿ita.- Chapter 3. Revised version of the Manuscript of the Third Volume of Datta and Singh.- Chapter 4. Studies in Indian Astronomy: From Vedic Period to the Emergence of Siddh¿ntas.- Chapter 5. Development of Siddh¿ntic Astronomy: Some Highlights.- Chapter 6. Reviews and Responses.