Re-reading Iron in Northeast India

Amrendra Kumar Thakur highlights the topic of ‘Re-reading of Iron in Northeast India’ and presents his outlook in the context of nationalist and communal approaches. He posits his ideas that unlike in India, the enquiries into the past of the people in Europe and America started about more than a century and a half back. Archaeologists, anthropologists, cultural historians and many social scientists, however, have been studying the technological progress of the past from their own perspectives; most of the time these were unidimensional. Nonetheless, all of them have contributed to the importance of technology in making sense of the past. This chapter discusses various aspects of iron technology and its socio-cultural significance in Northeast India prevailing during the pre-colonial period

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