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The beginning of iron in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dilip Chakrabarti
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Between 1795 and 1974 early Indian iron may be said to have had three separate phases of research. The first phase lasted from 1795 to about the middle of the 19th century. There were two types of writings in this period. The first type represented the metallurgical experiments on pre-industrial Indian steel called wootz, the term which is derived from the Canarese term ukku meaning steel, having been introduced into the English language by Pearson in 1795 (Yule and Burnell, 1903).

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Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 198 , June 1976 , pp. 114 - 124
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1976

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