Iron smelting & forest degradation almost 200 years ago? This report explores a passage from Mysore Gazetteer. Tracking Francis Buchanan's Journey of 1800-01 through iron making areas of Tumkur and Chitradurga districts we found remnants of traditional iron smelting. We realized that our pre-railways past may not have bean as green as we had imagined.
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