Karnataka (fifteenth century) show what
be attempted. In t ne of the three e:
embankments was ick at the base and 3
es.’ The Grand
ong, up to 18 metres
irrigation canals fiom the Kav
Cholas (eleventh century) or a
‘Much of India’s irrigation was,
TECHNOLOGY
cart drawn by two camcame into general use for threshing by the tenth c
could also have been used to
bow-scutch was trans!
venth century and reijure from there of
The
stirrup is universal, but of leather and wood, and only rarely
4” The iron-stirrup seems, on the other hand, to have
.rsal use in the cavalry of the Islamic world from
Sultans’ armies from the
there were no “farriers’ in
working life of the
shortened." However, by Mar
ipture (Karnataka) does begin to depii
yee Chapter 2.2)