Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c25.s6.3

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The diamond mining in the nineteenth century India was reviewed by Ritter (1836), Ball (1881: 1-50) and then Max Bauer (1896: Edelsteinkunde, translated and edited in 1968). We reproduce in *fig. 17.4* the plate on the diamond-fields of India as drawn in 1896. (Bauer, 1968: 144) It was felt that the mines active at that time could have been recent or medieval rather than ancient. However, the ancient mines (before AD 1200) were probably located in the well-defined zones of southern, eastern and central India as represented in *fig 17.4*.