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19th February 2016, 10:58 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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Jim,
India is currently #4 producer of steel in the world. Iron ore is plentiful there. Thus, I do not think that wootz production 200 years ago ceased because of the exhaustion of raw materials. Rather , the need in wootz and the skills in making it must have vanished. Of course, British industrial policies did not help either:-) |
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