Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Setting the stage: Europe and Asia before divergence
- Part II The divergence of Britain
- Part III The Indian path
- Chapter 7 Science and technology in India, 1600???1800
- Chapter 8 Modern industry in early nineteenth-century India
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Notes to the text
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - Science and technology in India, 1600???1800
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Setting the stage: Europe and Asia before divergence
- Part II The divergence of Britain
- Part III The Indian path
- Chapter 7 Science and technology in India, 1600???1800
- Chapter 8 Modern industry in early nineteenth-century India
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Notes to the text
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In the two chapters that form the third and final part of this work, the focus is once again on India and the Indian path of economic development. This chapter explores the growing Indian interest in scientific and technical knowledge from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The next chapter turns to the early nineteenth century when the sophisticated Indian knowledge order continued to offer enormous possibilities, but the constraints of British rule narrowed the economic options. Within a few decades of the rise of British power, the reservoir of technical know-how that had been amassed over the previous 200 years began to be dissipated. Colonial India was, therefore, a very different place than the India of the early-modern period.
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- Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did NotGlobal Economic Divergence, 1600–1850, pp. 185 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011