 | William Wilson Hunter - Bengal (India) - 1877 - 394 pages
...it is scarcely likely that they would have forgotten it. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that there was a period, anterior to the advent of the Hindus, when iron was quite unknown to them,—when, owing to the absence of cultivation in the plains, they were even more dependent on the... | |
 | Valentine Ball - India - 1880 - 778 pages
...quite unknown to them : and when, owing to the absence of cultivation in the neighbouring lowlands, they were even still more dependent on the supply...probability made of stone, and their arrows had tips made of the same material. a house, the whole family fled, and hid themselves in the jungle ; at other... | |
 | Valentine Ball - Bengal (India) - 1880 - 786 pages
...is scarcely likely that they would have forgotten it. It is, therefore, not unreasonable to suppose that there was a period, anterior to the advent of the Hindus, when iron was quite unknown to them : and when, owing to the absence of cultivation in the neighbouring lowlands, they were even still... | |
 | Robert Vane Russell - Caste - 1916 - 668 pages
...would have forgotten it. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that there was a period prior to the advent of the Hindus when iron was quite unknown...absence of cultivation in the plains, they were even more dependent on the supply of jungle food than they are at present. In those times their axes and... | |
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Had they at any period possessed a knowledge of the art of making iron, conservative of their customs as such races are, it is scarcely likely that they would have forgotten it. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that there was a period, anterior... 