What have been the impediments of growth of Science in India?

In fad, the British were able to subjugate this country, and make it their colony, on the basis of science, technology and industry which had developed there. The question that naturally arises is what the difference between Europe of sixteenth century and India of that period was. If you get interested in pursuing the question, you would probably have to read history in depth. However, to put it simply, the difference in the two societies was in their social structure, in the degree of the hold of religious orthodoxy, and the intellectual atmosphere. Let us explain what we mean.

We have seen that one kind of pressure for advancing knowledge and technology comes from the necessity of satisfying human needs. There is an old saying that necessity is the mother of invention. Well, it appears that in spite of periodic wars between the rulers of various regions and states in the country, there was a very considerable stability in Indian society.

Impediments of growth of Science in India