WHY DID SCIENTIFIC RENAISSANCE TAKE PLACE IN EUROPE AND NOT IN INDIA ?

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A good scientific article on this historical topic from an eminent Indian Scientist, here is the abstract:

Scientific renaissance in medieval Europe and its absence inmedieval India can be explained in terms of several causal factors whichwere positively operative and negatively non-operative in the respectiveinstances. Ancient Indian science had achieved some meritorious successes,but these advantages were squandered through casteism, vainglory andnon-appreciation of several factors such as manual labour, mechanizationand education at all levels of society. Additionally, India received theIslamic onslaught and civilization in its decadent state when it had littleintellectual resource to offer to this sub-continent.

Europe on the other hand, had stressed on the importance ofmanual efforts, mechanical inventions, early capitalism, questioning andeven defying, if necessary, the theological doctrines encroaching on thenatural and social sciences, and lastly the infinite zeal to learn from othercivilizations.

India had the chance to imbibe the spirit of scientific renaissancein Europe during its Mughal Era, but did not avail of this opportunity. Theproposition that ‘had the British not come to India’, India would haveautomatically revived its national cohesion and scientific spirit is hardlytenable.

Here is the link to the authors' biography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Kumar_Biswas#cite_note-36

After his retirement as a Chemistry/ Mettalurgy Professor, he published no. of articles and books with Ramakrishna Math, and appears to be a good scholar.

Taken from Wikipedia:

Biswas's academic interest and firm conviction that both social sciences and humanities and science and technology are essential for human progress propelled him to publish a large number of research papers and reviews on a wide spectrum of topics.