[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971) › c29.2 # Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c29.2 Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c29.2 - **Language:** English ### [c29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c29.2) Around the same period, there were excited discussions, especially in school, about whether the British should leave India. Some were against \*swaraj\* because they feared invasion of the country by Afghan tribesmen and others. With many others his age, Dharampal tended more and more towards the \*swaraj\* option. Though he underwent western education throughout school and college, his animosity to British rule grew year by year. By 1940, he had started to wear \*khadi\* regularly—a practice he follows even now—and even tried to take to spinning the \*charkha\* for a while. - [Previous: c29.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c29.1) - [Next: c29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c29.3) - [Up: c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c29.2) · Pramāṇa