Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c17.2
Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c17.2
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c17.2
INDIA was the greatest "industrial power" of antiquity. It was the manufactures of the Hindus, which, backed up by their commercial enterprise, served as standing advertisements of India in Egypt, Babylonia, Judæa, Persia, etc. To the Romans of the Imperial epoch and the Europeans of the Middle Ages, also, the Hindus were noted chiefly as a nation of industrial experts.