Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c26.s6.1

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Colonel Tod, the great historian of Rajasthan, wrote in 1829 that as recently as 1760 the Zawar Mines had been in full production but that “the miners are now dead, the mines filled with water”. (Tod, 1829, 1950) The mines were abandoned during the reign of Maharana Bhim Singh (1778-1828) when the State of Mewar was repeatedly plundered by Marāthā invaders. In 1850, Brooke mentioned about the ancient art of zinc distillation and an old man who claimed that he knew the technology. (Brooke, 1850: 212-15)