A Concise History of Science in India c9.s8.2

c9.s8.2

Probably a century or two earlier, Indians possessed the knowledge of manufacturing specific fireworks, since the basic ingredients of the gunpowder constitute the components of mixtures used in the fireworks. By the seventeenth century a.d. fireworks became common in several parts of the country, particularly in Orissa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu and Kerala. It is believed that the Indians obtained the knowledge of pyrotechnics from the Chinese who had certainly developed pyrotechnics even as early as the eleventh or twelfth century a.d.