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what was the indian response to the colonial science and technology​

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Indian Response to European Science and Technology 1757-1857

Satpal Sangwan

The British Journal for the History of Science 21 (2), 211-232, 1988

The spread of modern science to India, the non-scientific culture area according to Basalla's thesis, 1 under the colonial umbrella played an important role in shaping the history of Indian people. Notwithstanding its colonial flavour, the new science left a distinct impression on the minds of the local populace. The belief that the Indian mind was not ripe enough to assimilate the new ideas, supported by a few instances of their (Indian) hostility towards some imported technologies, has dominated historical writ-ings since the Macaulian era. This proposition requires close scrutiny of the contempo-rary evidence. In this paper, I have tried to explain the various shades of Indian experiences with European science and technology during the first hundred years of British rule.

Compared to an earlier work for the sixteenth-seventeenth century, 2 when Indian contact with western science and technology was rather sporadic, the period under review offers a large field for research. Much change had taken place since the opening of the Cape route at the end of the fifteenth century. The servants of European Companies, who used to bring some specimen of new technology to please the native3 chieftains, 4 were no longer content with a few monetary gains. 5 By the end of the seventeenth century the designs of the Companies had shifted from the mere pursuit of Commerce to those of territorial acquisition. 6 The idea of an empire in the East,