Iron in Ancient India c9.s3.26

c9.s3.26

We hope we have been able to give a trustworthy account of the process of the manufacture of Indian steel, which was an object of envy of all nations but successfully imitated by none and which supplied the materials of many a true blade of warriors both in the East and the West. It is sad to reflect that an ancient indigenous industry which attracted merchants from Persia, as narrated by Dr. Voysey, barely hundred years ago, is on the point of extinction; but as even the darkest cloud is not without a silver lining, a distinct ray of hope is visible in the not very distant horizon presaging that India will yet regain her lost iron industry under modern scientific conditions together with other attendant industries depending upon iron.