Powder Metallurgy in Tribal India?

[ad_1] One usually associates powder metallurgy with space-age industry. Very few know that the wall-mounted oil-lamp-cum-key-stand and the slender-limbed animal figurines that you see in Indian Handicrafts displays, are products of a purely ingenious technology evolved by the Muria tribes around the Chhattisgarh region, centuries ago.Wrought-iron figures are a popular sight in handicrafts shows. Their original inspiration comes from the Muria tribe inhabited mostly around the erstwhile Bastar State, spread partly over Chhattisgarh and Odisha. That region is also home to the more popular Dhokra or bell-metal investment-cast sculpture, but that’s another story. Sheer ingenuity hallmarks the process of the […]