Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.3

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But all this knowledge among the scholars and prominent writers on Indian economics has not so far created any general awareness of the teaching and practice of these sciences and technologies, or the questioning of the prevailing hypothesis of ‘the eighteenth century’ being ‘the darkest period’ in Indian history,⁵¹ etc. The reasons for the lack of appropriate awareness or the prevailing indifference are manifold. Primarily the responsibility for such a situation lies with the system of education which has prevailed in independent India, which by nurturing indifference, even contempt, for everything indigenous effectively blocks such enquiries.