Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.47
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.47
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c3.47
Therefore the purpose was defined as bringing to Britain and Europe, surplus products of the varied industry of the people of India, and the taxes imposed on this industry. Such a proposal, in fact, was very clearly put forward around 1780 by Prof. Adam Ferguson of Edinburgh. Ferguson was a professor of moral philosophy. (Interestingly, he is also regarded as the founder of British sociology.)