Sharma, who wrote a biography of Jai Singh, the Jesuits along with Catholic laymen were prohibited under threat of the Inquisition to accept the view held by Galileo and other scientists that the earth revolved around the sun. To the church this was heresy and atheism.
ब्राह्‍मण विद्वान यूरोप जाने से इनकार करते थे क्योंकि उनका मानना था कि समुंदर पार करने से वे अपनी जात खो देंगे ।