Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.7
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.7
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c25.7
It is extremely difficult to learn the arts of the Indians for the same caste, from father to son exercises the same trade and the punishment of being excluded from the caste on doing anything injurious to its interests is so dreadful that it is often impossible to find an inducement to make them communicate any thing. They in general care nothing for money if they have enough to buy their food and a little is sufficient for that purpose. As their knowledge of the arts is never communicated by writing nor printing nor their experience reduced to general laws by theory the difficulty of information is again increased.