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Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.22

Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.22

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c6.s3.22

A question yet remains: Why have sciences and technologies—which seem to have been very much alive about 8-10 generations ago—been wholly eclipsed? Answers about the causes of such an eclipse are very complex. Some of them are also—till there is systematic and detailed research available about Indian science and society—largely speculative. A few of them may, however, be suggested here.