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'''Chunar stone''' or '''Red-spotted sandstone''' is a kind of reddish or buff-colored, finely grained, hard [[sandstone]] quarried in the [[Chunar]] in the [[Mirzapur District]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]], and widely used in the architecture of [[India]].<ref name=Medlicott>{{cite book|last1=Medlicott|first1=Henry Benedict|title=A Manual of the Geology of India: Economic geology|date=1881|publisher=Geological Survey Office|page=544}}</ref><ref name=Mahajan>Mahajan V.D. (1960, reprint 2007). ''Ancient India'', New Delhi: S.Chand, New Delhi, {{ISBN|81-219-0887-6}}, p.349</ref><ref name=Singh>{{cite book|last1=Singh|first1=Upinder|title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century|date=2008|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=9788131711200|page=358}}<!--|accessdate=30 November 2015--></ref><br />
==Background==<br />
Notable buildings and monuments carved from chunar stone include:<br />
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* [[Pillars of Ashoka]].<ref name=Thapar>Thapar, Romila (2001). ''{{IAST|Aśoka}} and the Decline of the Mauryan'', New Delhi: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-564445-X}}, pp.267-70</ref><br />
* [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata]].<ref name=Victorian>{{Cite web|last= Banerjee |first= Jacqueline|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/30.html|title=St Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata, India, by William Nairn Forbes: The First Victorian Cathedral|publisher=The Victorian Web}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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