[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s9.186 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.186 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.186 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s9.186](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.186) The remarkable localisation of industries revealed in Buddhist literature has already been noticed. This is observable especially in the case of craft-villages of woodwrights⁴, ironsmiths⁵, and potters⁶. These were either suburban to large cities, or rural, and constituting as such special markets for the whole countryside, as we see in the ironsmiths' \*gāma\* just cited, to which people came from the \*gāmas\* round about to have razors, axes, ploughshares, goads, and needles made. On the Ganges or further afield there were trapper \*gāmas\*, supplying game, skins, ivory, etc.⁷ - [Previous: v1.c19.s9.185](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.185) - [Next: v1.c19.s9.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.187) - [Up: v1.c19.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.186](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.186) · Pramāṇa