History of iron technology in India : from beginning to pre-modern times / Vibha Tripathi ; foreword by Dilip K. Chakrabarti
- Author
- Tripathi, Vibha
- Additional Titles
- Iron technology and its legacy in India
- Published
- New Delhi : Rupa & Co. in association with Infinity Foundation, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xxxii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Chakrabarti, Dilip K. and Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.)
- Series
- Contents
- INCIDENCE OF IRON IN THE BRONZE AGE -- ORIGIN AND DISPERSAL OF IRON IN INDIA: The diffusion of technology -- Iron in Rigveda -- Archaeological evidence of iron in the Borderlands -- Iron in China -- Indigenous origin of iron in India -- The Early Iron Age cultures in India -- Early centres of iron in India -- A multi-centred and indigenous origin of iron in India -- IRON IN ANCIENT INDIA: FROM WROUGHT IRON TO STEEL: Development of metallurgy in ancient India -- Literary references to early iron metallurgy -- Wootz steel -- Iron ore and its mining -- IRON IN INDIA FROM THE IMPERIAL GUPTAS TO THE MIGHTY MOGHULS: Status of iron from the imperial Guptas to the Early Medieval Period -- The monumental structures -- The mighty Moghuls -- The iron cannons -- Production, distribution and marketing mechanism of iron and steel -- Condition of the Artisan -- IRON IN BRITISH INDIA: Status of indigenous iron during the British Period -- Iron production centres -- Status of indigenous iron: Summary and discussion -- The British and European ventures -- The colonial ambition and stagnation of iron production -- Decline of indigenous iron industry -- SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL OF THE INDIGENOUS IRON INDUSTRY: The traditional iron working -- Iron-making in Netarhat Plateau-Jharkhand.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 8129111853 (jkt.)
9788129111852 (jkt.) - Note
- "Contributions to history of Indian science and technology"--Jacket.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Engineering copy: Purchased with funds from the Kenneth & Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment; 2010.
- Endowment Note
- Kenneth and Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment
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