Factors in Leadership: The Social and the Individual

Factors in Leadership: The Social and the Individual was produced in Germany in 1500. Vasco Da Gama of Portugal landed on the Malabar Coast in southern India in 1499, inaugurating a sea route that connected Europe with Asia based on advances in geography and naval technology. In 1501, Portugal had captured Goa. A century later (in 1600), the British East India Company was set up, and a short while after, the French East India Company was founded in 1664. However, because of his political involvements, Aurangzeb was unaware of these developments or did not give them the importance they deserved, although they suggested the grave external challenges they would soon pose, not just to India but the entire Muslim world. Long before Aurangzeb was born, in the 2nd century C.E., a rudimentary form of printing had been invented in China, which was later further refined by Willem J. Blaeu in 1620 in Amsterdam and came to be known as the Dutch Press. The first all-metal press was constructed in England in about 1795. Some hail Aurangzeb for making copies of the Quran in his hand. Strangely enough, he seems to be unaware that in 1455, Gutenberg had printed the first copy of the Bible in the printing press invented by him, thereby taking the Christian missionary enterprise from