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Institution

IIT Kanpur

A grand building with classical architecture, featuring columns and a balcony, stands prominently under a soft sky, marking the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, founded in 1959.

The Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, founded in 1959 as one of the original IITs and built with early collaboration from a consortium of American universities. Its Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering has been the principal academic home for research on the Delhi pillar and on the wider question of how pre-modern Indian iron and steel achieved its reputation in the ancient world.

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