Iron in Ancient India c9.s3.17

c9.s3.17

Syed Hossain Bilgrami in his lecture on " Iron industry in the Hyderabad and Deccan " before the Iron and Steel Institute has given a similar narrative of the crucible process of steel-making in the Nizam's Dominions, the wood used " being a species of cassia, very common in the country and known as cassia tora and the leaves those of calatropis gigantea."²