- RECENT POSTS
- RARE BOOKS
- PAINTINGS
-
- THEMES
- The Grand Mughals - Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar (1526-1857)
- Indian Life and Landscapes by Western Artists
- Literature, Music and Dance of Ancient India
- Collecting Rare and Antiquarian Books
- Museums, Libraries and Archives of the World
- Hinduism - the Sanathana Dharma
- India - After the advent of Photography
- Indian Cities - Through the Ages
- Art, Sculpture and Treasures of India
- Architecture of India
- India - Its People, Culture, Professions and Languages
- India and its Royalty
- Ancient India (Upto 1200 CE)
- The Honourable East India Company (1600-1858)
- India - As seen by foreign travellers
- The Dutch, French and Portuguese in India
- The Indian Independence Movement
- Dealers of Rare and Antiquarian Books
- History of Mysore
- India during the Colonial Era
- Company School Paintings
- Sikhs - Their Religion and History
- Buddhism - in the land of Buddha
- Kingdoms of India
- Islam in India
- Christianity in India
- Rise of the Maratha Power
- Hinduism in foreign lands
- Cartography of India
- Modern Literature in India
- Natural History of India
- India and its Many Geographies
- The Deccan Kingdoms
- Revisiting Indian History
- History of India's Trade, Industry and Finance
- Saints, Reformers and Pioneers
- Astronomy, Ayurveda, Yoga, Science and Mathematics in Ancient India
- Hindu Empires of Southern India
- Colonial Literature of India
- Art and Artists of the Twentieth Century
- Rare Dictionaries of Indian Languages
- The History of India - By its various Historians
- Travel Literature of Colonial India
- The Foreign Invaders
- Jainism and its ancient origins
- RBSI in Media
- Rare Books of World Literature
- Sanskrit - its grammar and antiquity
- Neighbouring lands of India
- The Parsis - Who made India their home
- Military History of India
- THEMES
- JOIN RBSI
Posted on: 24 December 2010
Digital Rare Book :
Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of Rubber : A practical treatise on the manufacture of India rubber hand stamps, small articles of India rubber, the use of rubber in surgery and dentistry, rubber tires, the hektograph, special inks, cements and allied subjects, also giving the sources of India rubber and its history.
By T. O'Connor Sloane
Published by Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., New York - 1912
Read Book Online : http://www.archive.org/stream/rubberhandstamps02sloa#page/n3/mode/2up
Download pdf Book : http://ia311031.us.archive.org/1/items/rubberhandstamps02sloa/rubberhandstamps02sloa.pdf
The word "India" in "India Rubber" may mislead us to think that the rubber is peculiarly Indian. Nothing of the sort. The history of rubber is traced to 18th century and not beyond and was first seen to be used by "Indians" of South America. This is another instance of commodification of a natural product (like tea, coffee, sugar-cane - all used in the same concoction!) and the advent of mono-culture agriculture. The rubber has found amazing Industrial and daily practical uses (besides making rubber stamps!) and unlike tea and coffee and cocoa. The rubber tree was perhaps brought to India around the same time it was found in South America and Africa. I doubt if "rubber" has a Sanskrit or Indian name at all.
Ah rubber stamps...will India ever get rid of them....'chapa maro'...