Notes
1The word Renaissance is Eurocentric in its coinage and usage and has become synonymous with the European Renaissance, which began in Italy and an implied Greco-Roman historical attribution to human knowledge. Such a usage does not acknowledge the Persian Renaissance during the time of Cyrus, the Islamic Renaissance, which was a necessary precursor and catalyst for Europe to emerge out of the Dark ages, and the Bengal Renaissance, a social reform movement that occurred independently in Bengal at the dawn of the 18th century.