Technology in India in the Eighteenth-Nineteenth century

Abstract

The study of technology is an essential key to the understanding of people's culture", writes - Harskovits, in his famous work, Man and His Culture¹. Some studies have, however, been made on Indian arts to appreciate their artistic, socio-religious and aesthetic significance, but no systematic study has been made oil technology of different crafts known in different periods of history. Here an attempt has been made to study some important traditional crafts and their technological innovations in the 18-19th century.