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| | Kumaon Iron Works, the British and Traditional Technology |
 | | Kumaon (in Uttaranchal) was under the colonial rule for more than 120 years, first under the British East India Company and then under the British Crown. |
 | | Kumaon was, like the rest of India, pre-eminently agricultural, but according to the census of 1872 there was also a section of the population exclusively connected with metalworking. |
 | | One dominating reason for building the Kumaon Iron Works was the probability of supplying iron to a potentially very big Indian market, principally to the big colonial public works, irrigation, transportation infrastructure, the railroads, the telegraph and military establishment. |
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