Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.18
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.18
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c6.s3.18
Remarks, observations, threats and declamations, like those quoted above, have shaped all the writing and teaching about India, and more or less continue to do so, in the manner and direction indicated by Macaulay and by his more (though less known in India) powerful precursors like William Wilberforce and James Mill.⁵⁴ Ignorance, apathy and utter mental confusion, particularly about life and society in the eighteenth century not only in India but in West Europe itself, are the natural products of such writing and teaching.