Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s3.35

c6.s3.35

Borrowing of ideas and practices in themselves need not be obstructive to India's development or creativity. During the centuries, India must have borrowed many ideas and practices from other lands—in the same manner in which Europe received much in the field of science and technology from the Arabs etc., or the Arabs and others did from India. To the extent that such borrowings lead to further innovation and creativity, they are to be greatly welcomed. Unfortunately, so far, the past century's unthinking transplanting of European sciences and technologies in India has resulted mainly in retarding and blunting of indigenous innovation and creativity.