Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.56
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.56
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The obstacles to cultivation here are few. A farmer in Europe would follow the same principle. His ploughs are constructed to suit the nature of the soil, and the work they have to perform. The same sort of ploughing that is necessary for a wheat crop, would not be proper in the cultivation of rice. Husbandry is never disgraced in Malabar by yoking together animals of a different species. Moses forbids the Israelites to plough with an ox and an ass together as a lesson of moral instruction: ‘Be not unequally yoked, etc.’