from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
Indian society, from time immemorial, has nurtured a thinking civilization. It never lived an isolated existence and never displayed xenophobic tendencies until recently. Techno-scientific tradition in India has largely been a synthetic tradition, continuously evolving as a result of each politico-cultural interaction with the outside world and social change within the region. In pre-modern times, the Indian subcontinent was known for its contribution to astronomy, medicine, and mathematics. But it was during the post-Renaissance epoch (that of Descartes and Newton) that Europe began to outdistance all other culture-areas.
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