History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c17.s1.6

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We have prepared a comprehensive report on minerals and metals in ancient India and submitted the same to the Indian National Science Academy (Biswas, A.K., 1991). Our treatment here contains only a very small segment of the above report. The details of ancient mining and metallurgy in India are covered elsewhere in this book by Singh, Agrawal and Prakash. This paper seeks to fill certain gaps between mining and metallurgy, and is devoted to the raw material aspects rather than fabrications (lapidary) or smelting (to metals).