Agaria

Agaria referred to a community of iron smelters who lived in the central part of India. In the 19th century, a series of famines came to devastate the dry tracts of the Indian subcontinent, which left the Agarias jobless and the agarias had to leave their villages and migrate to various other places for work as well as survival. Although in certain forests, access came to be given to these agarias to sustain, this couldn’t exist for long and they had to look for alternative occupations for sustenance.

The demand for iron which was produced locally by the iron smelters came to be decreased drastically as the imports from Britain increased in the late 19th century.

The Agaria was an Indian people group of iron smelters. They declined quickly after the import of English steel in India was advanced during the twentieth hundred years and the weapons and utensils were made utilizing English steel. They are accomplished in the speciality of iron refining. In the late nineteenth century, a progression of starvations crushed the dry tracts of India.