Claude Alvares

Claude Alphonso Alvares (born 1947 or 1948) is an Indian environmentalist based in Goa Quotes The Dutch are like the Hindus in their great tolerance. 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. 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”. quoted in Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991 External links Category:Living people Category:Writers from Goa Category:Indian non-fiction environmental writers Category:Eindhoven University of Technology alumni Category:Indian editors Category:Indian technology writers Category:20th-century Indian non-fiction writers Category:Indian botanical writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Activists from Goa