Sushruta described the forehead-flap rhinoplasty 2,000 years before a European professor was hailed as the “father of plastic surgery” — and this pattern of plagiarisation repeats across every field. Dr. Raj Vedam methodically traces how Indian knowledge was transmitted, stripped of attribution, and relabelled as European innovation.

The rhinoplasty case is the centerpiece: Sushruta Samhita → Baghdad’s House of Wisdom → Arab scholars Avicenna and Al-Razi → Latin translations in Toledo and Sicily → Salerno Medical School curriculum → Gaspar Tagliacozzi’s 1597 book, which uses a far less practical arm-flap method yet receives full credit. The same erasure pattern applies to music: Dr. Vedam challenges why Sarigama and Do-Re-Mi share identical tonal structures across civilisations that supposedly developed music independently — pointing toward a common Indian origin. The talk constructs a rigorous evidentiary framework for understanding how Eurocentrism manufactures false genealogies.

About The Speaker :
Dr. Raj Vedam, MSEE, Ph.D., works at the confluence of applied mathematics, engineering, algorithms, and computer science. Using tools of Archeo-Genetics, archeo- astronomy, and archaeology, and evidence of knowledge transfers from ancient India, the speaker has put forward a strong thesis with verifiable facts, on the antiquity of the Indian Civilisation, and the many discoveries made by the ancients. Dr. Raj Vedam is a co-founder of the think-tank, Indian History Awareness and Research, and resides in Houston, Texas. Currently, he is working as a faculty member at Hindu University of America, Arsha Seva Kendram, and Rishihood University.
He can be reached at rajvedam[at]yahoo[dot]com and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/raj.vedam.1\