Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.s5.t10.2
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.s5.t10.2
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c23.s5.t10.2
The iron was weighed by the standard of Nagpur—the maund of which place is about 3 lbs avoirdupois less than the factory maund of Calcutta; hence its weight is about 71 lbs 10 ozs avoirdupois, and 31¼ Nagpur maunds are nearly equal to one English ton; the value of the Calcutta Sicca Rupee is usually reckoned at 2 shillings and hence the cost of a ton weight of malleable iron in English money was five pounds nine shillings, and five pence, or in round numbers—five pounds ten shillings.