Iron in Ancient India c6.s8.13

c6.s8.13

*Bengal guns*: There are many big iron guns of the Moghul times in many parts of Bengal, notably in Dacca, Murshidābād, Bishnupur, Bhāgulpur and other places. Rennel in his celebrated "Memoir of a map of Hindoostan" has described a gigantic wrought-iron gun he found at Dacca in the eighteenth century. He writes: "There are the remains of a very strong fortress in it; and within these few years there was near it a cannon of extra-ordinary weight and dimensions: but it has since fallen into the river, together with the bank on which it rested."¹ Rennel took the measurements of the gun very carefully, which are given below:—