Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c26.s8.1

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The awareness that undivided India was the first country in the world where cementation brass, zinc metal, and brass through direct mixing of metals were made, has emerged only very recently. As late as 1956 Ray wrote erroneously (1956: 97) that “brass appears to have been introduced in Northern India, probably through Chinese trade”. The spectacular discoveries made by Hegde, Craddock, Willies etc. in the eighties have radically improved our knowledge on the subject which has been summarised by us. (Biswas *et al.*, 1990)