[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971) › c23.2 # Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.2 Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.2 - **Language:** English ### [c23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c23.2) An opportunity afforded by the Government of Bengal in 1828-9, having enabled me to examine several iron mines in the central part of India, and to make experiments on the Indian mode of manufacturing iron, I beg to offer the result of my observations to the hon'ble court of directors of the East India Company and I desire more particularly to draw attention to the simple forge and refinery, by means of which the process of smelting and decarbonisation is performed. - [Previous: c23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c23.1) - [Next: c23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c23.3) - [Up: c23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c23) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c23.2) · Pramāṇa