Papers presented at the Seminar on Technology in Medieval India--16th to 18th Century, September 7 and 8, 1984, Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Calcutt

This book covers the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomers and the equipage and weapo

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the futur