 Jonardon Ganeri (2011) has argued for regarding the early modern period in India as a period of innovation comparable to that in Europe, although the Indian intellectual world was less concerned to present itself as a radical break from the past than was true of the European ‘New Science.’ François Bernier, protege of the French atomist Pierre Gassendi, travelled to India in 1656 and found a receptive audience in the Sanskrit scholars trained in the atomism of the classical period of Indian philosophy (Ganeri 2011). Jayarāma, an early modern Indian atomist working in the Vaiśeṣika tradition, produced an atomist theory that Ganeri argues is closer to that of Daniel Sennert than to that of Gassendi (Ganeri 2011, p. 218). Substantial concessions are made within this atomist metaphysics towards acknowledging the reality of emergent properties.