ABSTRACT
As in Europe, the old economic and social ideas in India have been changed, in the main, by the slow working of outside forces. But, whereas the great stimulus in Europe came from contacts which her people made abroad, first in the Crusades, and later in the discovery of new and unoccupied continents, the stimulus in India came, and was partly carried out by the settlement of outsiders within her borders. Indeed, some of these people not only introduced and led a new capitalistic development, but they became governors and did much more which indirectly encouraged Indians themselves to change.
