Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.55
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.55
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c3.55
By their methods of extortion and other similar means, the British were able to smash Indian rural life and society by about 1820-1830. Around the same period, the extensive Indian manufactures met a similar fate. Because of deliberate British policy, the famed Indian village communities so eloquently described by Thomas Metcalfe around 1830, and by Karl Marx in the 1850s, had mostly ceased to exist.