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History of Carbon Pigment
Ink, which is a requisite for penning down anything on paper, came into existence from the country of India as the carbon pigment found in ink was discovered from India. It is produced from substances like tar, pitch, as well as residues of burnt bones. Ancient writings and manuscripts drafted in the country since the 4th century were written from this ink, derived from these substances.
The material is called India Ink, however, its root of the invention when it comes to usage was the country of China, wherein they would use a mixture of a number of components like glue, lampblack, and boneblack along with the carbon pigment to make the India Ink.
The ink when it began being used in India was traditionally called masi, and was the basis of many Buddhist and Jainism manuscripts which were written with it in the early 4th century BC, with the help of a sharp-pointed needle. It also became immensely popular in South India, and many Tamil literature works were drafted in a similar fashion, along with multiple numbers of other documents written in the nation with the ink, some of which were even unearthed in the Xinjang region of the country of China.