Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.62
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c3.62
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c3.62
Today, we feel encircled by hostility—much of it in fact generated by our own ineptitude and actions. From around 1947, we have treated ourselves as cousins of the West. Dominated by the West, it may be necessary at the moment to rely on Western knowledge and products. But this can only be a short term proposal. Very soon, whatever Western know-how or products seem essential to us, we must learn to produce them in our own way, with our own material, variations and modifications.