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Claude Alvares
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“The Dutch are like the Hindus in their great tolerance.”
Claude Alvares first seen 1492 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991
“Next to agriculture, cotton and cotton goods constituted the principal industry in the Indian sub-continent, as did the woollen industry in England. Up to 1800, no country produced a greater abundance or variety of textiles in the world. China remained the only close rival. In 1700 itself, India was the largest exporter of textiles in the world.”
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Recorded in: quoted in Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991
“It is perhaps easier now to understand the opinion of the traveller, Robert Orme, who, though often critical. was forced to admit that “the arts which furnish the conveniences of life have been carried by the Indians to a pitch far beyond which is necessary to supply the wants of a climate which knows so few”.”
Claude Alvares first seen 1492 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991