Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.8
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.8
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c6.8
But the imagery of backwardness and barbarism which still serves as a descriptive label for most of the non-European world was no sudden product of the 1820s or any other decade. It grew over a fairly long period, but at a much accelerated pace after about 1780. Many of the post-1780 accounts reflect the growth of this attitude amply.