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Studies in Ancient Indian Technology and Production: a Review

Studies in Ancient Indian Technology and Production: a Review MISCELLANEA STUDIES IN ANCIENT INDIAN TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION: A REVIEW The purpose of the present paper is to assess the current state of knowledge of ancient Indian technology and production The technological and productive items to be considered in the main are: stone, copper-bronze iron, other metals and miscellaneous groups of objects like pottery, beads and glass, agriculture and animal husbandry, irrigation and land-utilization, different manufacturing processes, and finally, the theoretical issues involved. The awareness of these issues is a com- paratively recent phenomenon in Indian historical scholarship. Apart from the fact that the earlier concern was more with dynastic and a general cultural history than with anything technical and economical, the earlier writers' range of findings and interpretations were severely limited by a lack of suitable, chronologically well- defined material data which could be available only through detailed archaeological investigations. A general dependence on limited and chronologically ambiguous literary data makes a large part of the early writings on the subject obsolete and unsatisfactory today. The amount of material archaeological data has enormously increased in recent years. There is also a much better understanding of the associated chronological and cultural stages covering both early history and prehistory. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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Brill
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© 1975 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4995
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1568-5209
DOI
10.1163/156852075X00119
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MISCELLANEA STUDIES IN ANCIENT INDIAN TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION: A REVIEW The purpose of the present paper is to assess the current state of knowledge of ancient Indian technology and production The technological and productive items to be considered in the main are: stone, copper-bronze iron, other metals and miscellaneous groups of objects like pottery, beads and glass, agriculture and animal husbandry, irrigation and land-utilization, different manufacturing processes, and finally, the theoretical issues involved. The awareness of these issues is a com- paratively recent phenomenon in Indian historical scholarship. Apart from the fact that the earlier concern was more with dynastic and a general cultural history than with anything technical and economical, the earlier writers' range of findings and interpretations were severely limited by a lack of suitable, chronologically well- defined material data which could be available only through detailed archaeological investigations. A general dependence on limited and chronologically ambiguous literary data makes a large part of the early writings on the subject obsolete and unsatisfactory today. The amount of material archaeological data has enormously increased in recent years. There is also a much better understanding of the associated chronological and cultural stages covering both early history and prehistory.

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1975

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