

JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



New Series. 



Vol. VI.— 1910. 



♦ 



I. Fashion in Iron Styles. 



By I. H. Burkill. 



Most of the styles in the Indian Museum belong to a 

 long, representative and very interesting series which the 

 Government of Madras collected at the instance of the Reporter 

 on Economic Products, from almost every district of that 

 Presidency. In the Agricultural Ledger Xo. 6 of 1908-09 on 

 "Indian Pens," pp. 95-96, the collection is referred to. To 

 that Ledger, this paper on "fashion " in the shape of the styles 

 is supplementary : by illustrating the different tvpes and indi- 

 cating in what parts of the western peninsula' of India each 

 type is used, it carries the subject further than would hav* hp*n 



rnal such as the Agricultural Ledg 

 connect the shane of the r>pn<* wit 



the 



character of the writing, for such i subject is well b< ond the 

 writer's field of work and best left to philologists 



ach 



Indian 



» this account are the 

 thnologic court of the 



The 



drawings reproduced were made in the Government School of 

 Art, Calcutta, under the kind supervision of Mr. P y Brown 



the Principal. All are drawn to the same s de, viz., \ of the 

 original. 



For the purpose of the paper t he styles have been classed 

 under four divisions. 



