A thought provoking novel, in which the normal and the abnormal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, illusion and reality, resignation and desire rub shoulders.

    The Book is based on fascinating accounts of various technical processes and practices written by Englishmen and other Europeans in the period when they came to India to learn and before they opted to rule. Besides plastic surgery and inoculation techniques, the book also has accounts on the manufacture of ice and paper; irrigation and agriculture; and some aspects of science including algebra, geometry and astronomy, the last reflected in the establishment of impressive observatories.The effect of ht book has been to compel historians to radically revise their opinion of the technical capabilities and scientific output of Indian society.Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century is the first in the series of five volumes of the Collected Writings of Dharampal