Iron in Ancient India c6.s7.5

c6.s7.5

² Iron in Allauddin's gates in Delhi: While visiting Northern India in 1909 I happened to observe that inside a broken place in the celebrated 'Allauddin's Daroja near the Kutub Minar at Delhi something like iron was visible. The broken place had a diameter of 2 or 3 inches and it appeared that the huge stone gates had in the inside iron plates in order to give them more strength. I mention this fact here as it may attract the notice of the Archaeological Survey of India who may examine the gates more thoroughly. The gates were constructed by the celebrated Pathan Emperor Allauddin Khilliji in 1307 or 1315 (Henry Hardy Cole's Architecture of Ancient Delhi). If my suspicion about this iron turns out to be correct, it would be a specimen of iron of the times of the Pathan rulers of Delhi.