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Iron in India
History and Historiography

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Hardback, 412 pages
Published
United States, 1 September 2022

Iron in India: History and Historiography presents a transdisciplinary narrative aimed at a reconstruction of the history of Indian iron before its industrial production. This book looks at the pre-industrial period with a two-fold perspective: by understanding the material culture that has survived through the passage of time, and by examining the process through which historians have discovered, interacted, and interpreted those trails of the past. This book includes a detailed discussion on a new set of evidence unearthed in the recent years and examines diverse historical explanations/narratives such as the pre-colonial penchant for 'superior quality of Indian iron', details on Indian iron as a part of systematic knowledge production during the colonial period, and post-colonial interpretations of the subject mostly guided by colonial framework. It also highlights the nature of settlement dynamics with regards to the production and use of iron, thus establishing a meaningful synergy between archaeological findings and historical discourses.


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Iron in India: History and Historiography presents a transdisciplinary narrative aimed at a reconstruction of the history of Indian iron before its industrial production. This book looks at the pre-industrial period with a two-fold perspective: by understanding the material culture that has survived through the passage of time, and by examining the process through which historians have discovered, interacted, and interpreted those trails of the past. This book includes a detailed discussion on a new set of evidence unearthed in the recent years and examines diverse historical explanations/narratives such as the pre-colonial penchant for 'superior quality of Indian iron', details on Indian iron as a part of systematic knowledge production during the colonial period, and post-colonial interpretations of the subject mostly guided by colonial framework. It also highlights the nature of settlement dynamics with regards to the production and use of iron, thus establishing a meaningful synergy between archaeological findings and historical discourses.

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EAN
9789355723697
ISBN
9355723695
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Dimensions
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.7 centimeters (0.79 kg)

About the Author

Dipsikha Acharya is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, North Bengal University, West Bengal. She has taught in the Department of Archaeology, University of Calcutta, and Department of History, Diamond Harbour Women's University, West Bengal as Guest Lecturer. After completing her doctoral degree from the University of Calcutta, she was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, during 2015-17. Her areas of research include protohistory, the production and use of iron, and archaeology of the early medieval period. She has published several research papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

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