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Iron smelting was at one time a widespread industry in North India and there is
hardly a district away from the great alluvial tracts of the Indus, Ganges, and
Brahmaputra, in which slag heaps (The waste left when smelting metal) are not
found. For the primitive iron smelter finds no difficulty in obtaining sufficient
supplies of ore from deposits that no European ironmaster would regard as
worth his sincere consideration.
Iron smelting in India was extremely common till the end of the nineteenth
century. In Bihar and Central India every district had smelters that used local
deposits of ore to produce iron which was widely used for the manufacture of
implements and tools of daily use. The furnaces were most often built of clay
and sun-dried bricks. The smelting was done by men while women worked the
bellows, pumping air that kept the charcoal burning
1. What evidence found in north India suggested that iron smelting at one
time was a widespread industry?
2. Where did the smelters of Bihar get the raw material from?
3. Name the device used by local smelters to produce iron.
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