Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth Century/Satya Prakash Sangar. 1998, vii, 236 p., $16. ISBN 81-7510-023-0.
Contents: Preface. 1. Cotton fabrics. 2. Indian silk fabrics in the seventeenth century. 3. Gujarat textiles. 4. Surat : trade and textiles. 5. Burhanput textiles. 6. Baroda textile. 7. Broach textiles. 8. Cambay textiles. 9. Bombay cloth. 10. The Sind and Punjab textiles. 11. Samana cloth. 12. Agra textiles. 13. Bihar textiles. 14. Orissa textiles. 15. Bengal textiles. 16. Cloth fabrics of the Coromandel coast. 17. Textiles exports to England. 18. Textile exports to middle-east. 19. Textile exports to South-East-Asia.
From the preface: "This study presents for the first time a detailed and complete picture of the two hundred varieties of cotton and silkon cloths manufactured in India in the seventeenth century. This cloth was exported to the countries all over the world. For many centuries India has been carrying on this thriving trade till the advent of the European nations whose piratical activities ruined the whole trade till only a fraction?"
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