Tamil Heritage Trust
Tamil Heritage Trust - "Understanding the Early Iron Age: Zonal Differences Within the Indian Subcontinent" by Dr Oishi Roy
Online Talk in English at 5.30 pm IST on November, 1, 2025.
YouTube link of the talk
The Early Iron Age in the Indian subcontinent has been studied and
categorised into six zones: the North Western Frontier,
Baluchistan, the Ganga Valley, Eastern India, Malwa and Berar in Central
India, and the Deccan Peninsula and Southern India. Each zone had
its own unique features and developed independently. In her Talk,
"Understanding the Early Iron Age: Zonal Differences Within the Indian
Subcontinent", Dr Oishi Roy of IISER, Mohali, will trace the
similarities and differences and reasons for this development with the
aid of new excavations and dates that have come to light.
She will also attempt to infer the socio-cultural construct of the
society and draw inferences about the iron technology adopted.
Oishi Roy is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research, Mohali under the Palaeo - Arch Lab. Her
current research revolves around indigenous smithy techniques and the
smithy communities of Eastern India.
Dr Roy did her masters at the Rashtrasant Tukdaoji Maharaja Nagpur
University in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology and her
Post-Graduate Diploma at Deccan College, Pune. She did her PhD in
Ancient Iron Technology of the Early Iron Age from Maharaja Sayajirao
University of Baroda. During her association with MS University, she was
an exchange researcher at the University of Exeter under the guidance
of Dr Gillian Juleff, where she gained an insight into phytolith
analysis.
Dr Roy worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Archaeological Sciences
Centre at IIT Gandhinagar and continues her research on the remnants of
ancient iron technology in Vidarbha, as well as the trade mechanisms
followed by these societies. Later, she served as an Assistant
Archaeologist at the Bihar Heritage Development Society, Patna, and was
involved in the famous Telhara Excavation. Besides being an
archaeo-metallurgist, she has excavated multiple sites ranging from
Lower Palaeolithic to Early Medieval.
In 2019, she was awarded the prestigious H.D. Sankalia Young
Archaeologist Award for her research paper, " Evidence for Steel Making
at Naikund and its Relationship with Mahurjhari, Borgaon, and
Khairwada." She has recently co-authored an excavation report, ‘Sri
Prathamasivapura Mahavihara: Excavating an Early Medieval Buddhist
Monastery at Telhara in Magadh (Eastern India).
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