Snake Featherston
Banned
How would a realistic Industrial Revolution emerge in India?
Conditions were ripe for it in the Song Dynasty in China, until the Mongols interrupted, and they quite obviously worked in Britain IOTL.
What conditions would have been required for an Indian Industrial Revolution? Perhaps removing the Mughals? A different type of Hinduism emerging on a more libertarian basis (this is pre-1900, after all) prior to the time of Gautama (which would change too much, I think)? Or perhaps one of the various Indian kingdoms with the right resources for developing industrial society gets to exist uninterrupted longer (which ones that would be, I'm not sure.)
Regardless, I'd be curious how an Industrial Revolution might emerge in the Indosphere and the impact Industrial society would have on India. It did all sorts of things to Christianity, how would Hinduism survive?
Questions...Questions...
Conditions were ripe for it in the Song Dynasty in China, until the Mongols interrupted, and they quite obviously worked in Britain IOTL.
What conditions would have been required for an Indian Industrial Revolution? Perhaps removing the Mughals? A different type of Hinduism emerging on a more libertarian basis (this is pre-1900, after all) prior to the time of Gautama (which would change too much, I think)? Or perhaps one of the various Indian kingdoms with the right resources for developing industrial society gets to exist uninterrupted longer (which ones that would be, I'm not sure.)
Regardless, I'd be curious how an Industrial Revolution might emerge in the Indosphere and the impact Industrial society would have on India. It did all sorts of things to Christianity, how would Hinduism survive?
Questions...Questions...