"There will never be another nation, which understood separate types of swords and their names, than the inhabitants o…"

"Archaeologically . . . the problem of the Aryans and their association with iron remains as confusing as ever, regard…"

"The mention of iron in [Hindu] texts is as solid a chronological indicator as one can expect in the reconstruction of…"

"Clement of Alexandria (c. 150–215) commented on Indian iron’s superior blades: ‘does the table knife not cut unless i…"

"When the Harappan civilisation experienced the Copper Age in the Indus valley, southern India experienced the Iron Age."

"The Hindus seem to have been the first people to mine gold.... Much of the gold used in the Persian Empire in the fif…"

"The art of tempering and casting iron developed in India long before its known appearance in Europe; Vikramaditya, fo…"

"Their (Indians) chemical skill is a fact more striking and more unexpected... They knew how to prepare sulphuric acid…"

"The traditional view, that iron was brought into the subcontinent by invading ‘Aryans’, is wrong on two counts: there…"

"The Indians are very good at making various compounds of mixtures of substances with the help of which they melt the …"