Srinivasan, Sharada (1998) The use of tin and bronze in prehistoric southern Indian metallurgy. In: JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 50 (07). pp. 44-48.
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Abstract
The medieval icons of southern India are among the most acclaimed Indian artistic innovations, especially those of the Chola Tamil kingdom (9th–10th centuries), which is best known for the Hindu iconography of the Dance of Siva that captured the imagination of master sculptor Rodin.1 Apart from these prolific images, however, not much was known about southern Indian copperbased metallurgy. Hence, these often spectacular castings have been regarded as a sudden efflorescence, almost without precedent, of skilled metallurgy as contrasted with tin-rich China or southeast Asia, for instance, where a developed copper-bronze tradition has been better appreciated.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society |
Publisher: | Springer |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Springer. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2009 11:08 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 05:28 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/19420 |
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