Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.41
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.41
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c3.41
It is not that others had not consulted these very records before. Dozens had. They missed the overall picture largely because they saw the material in fragments, for a particular piece of research, over a month or a year or two. Dharampal, in contrast, gave it the benefit of decades. His mind retained every detail of what he read with uncanny sharpness. That is how he eventually got the whole picture.