Creations born in Bhārat

Zero and chess, plastic surgery and shampoo, the Moon mission and the movies — Bhārat has been inventing for 5,000 years. Explore the creations that began on this soil and changed the world.

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ALL Mathematics & Astronomy · 2 Medicine · 2 Games & Play · 2 Everyday Inventions · 2 Textiles · 1 Modern Creations · 2

2 creations in Everyday Inventions

Everyday Inventions

2 creations

Everyday Inventions

Buttons

बटन

The button — that tiny fastener on every shirt you own — was first made in the Indus Valley around 2000 BCE. Archaeologists at Mohenjo-daro found carved shell buttons, some in the shape of discs with holes, making Bhārat the birthplace of the world's most used fastener.

c. 2000 BCE

The Indus Valley civilisation

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Everyday Inventions

Shampoo (Champu)

शैंपू

Every time you wash your hair, you say a word of Bhārat: shampoo comes from the Hindi champi — the traditional head and body massage with herbal oils. When British travellers returned from Bhārat, they brought back the practice and the word — and the modern hair-care industry was born.

16th – 17th c. (carried to Europe in the 18th c.)

Bhārat's herbal champi tradition

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One land. Endless wonders.

Which story will you explore next? Every card below began on soil of Bhārat.

Aryabhata's Astronomy Ayurveda Buttons Chaturanga — the Original Chess cinema of Bhārat Cotton & Calico ISRO & the Space Programme Moksha Patam — Snakes & Ladders Shampoo (Champu) Sushruta's Surgery The Concept of Zero