Copper in Ancient India.

An interesting monograph on “Copper in Ancient India” by Mr Panchanan Neogi, MA, Ph.D, has been published by the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta. It is a well oriented and handsomely illustrated pamphlet of 64 pages and is a companion volume to the author’s monograph on “Iron in Ancient India.” Mr Neogi points out that he found abundant materials in the archaeological literature of India which is little explored by students of history and he proves that extensive trade in and manufacture of copper existed from the pre-historic times down to the 17th country A.D. in India. Copper was known in the later Vedic age and there is a unique find of 400 pre-historic copper implements in the village of Gungeria in Central Provinces.