Dear participants of the Forum. It is well known that the wootz in India stopped producing the mid-19th century.
It seems to be known and the reasons why this happened:
1) a ban on logging
2) a large number of blades is not expensive good quality from Europe
But, let's see, from what sources we rely when we say that the wootz steel production in India ended in the mid-19th century.
I think it will be interesting if the participants of the forum called literary source and citation from them, which prove that wootz steel production in India stopped by the mid 19th century.
By the way! What do you think? Termination production of wootz steel means the cessation of the production of wootz steel blades?
But please, let's do without Wikipedia
