Gurrah (cloth)

Gurrah (garat) was a kind of calico produced in Northeast India during the 18th century. Gurrah was one of the cotton piece goods[1] exported to England and France.[2][3][4]

Name

Gurrah may be a name stemmed from Hindi garha.[5]

Characteristics

Gurrah was a typical quality plain cloth.[5][6] It was an unbleached cotton material.[7]

Use

It was processed and used in many household items such as table cloth, etc. Gurrah was also used for printing base material in England and France.[2] Gurrah was also a part of Indian cloths exported to America.[8]

Gurrah has been mentioned as a dress material in petticoat.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Theobald, William (1868). The Legislative Acts of the Governor General of India in Council of 1867, with Abstracts Prefixed, Table of Contents and Index: In Continuation of Acts from 1834 to the Present Time. Thacker, Spink. p. 72.
  2. ^ a b Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid (2013-09-17). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. A&C Black. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-60901-535-0.
  3. ^ Watson, John Forbes (1864). New Zealand exhibition, 1865, a classified list of contributions from British India and its dependencies. p. 48.
  4. ^ Watson, John Forbes (1866). The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India. India Office.
  5. ^ a b Raut, Lakshmi Narayan (1988). Socio-economic Life in Medieval Orissa, 1568-1751. Punthi Pustak. p. 146. ISBN 978-81-85094-18-2.
  6. ^ Heney, Helen (1978). Australia's Founding Mothers. Nelson. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-17-005091-3.
  7. ^ Studies in Islam: Quarterly Journal of the Indian Institute of Islamic Studies. The Institute. 1968. p. 34.
  8. ^ Bean, Susan S. (2001). Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail, 1784-1860. Peabody Essex Museum. p. 75. ISBN 978-81-85822-83-9.
  9. ^ Barnard, Edwin (2010). Exiled: The Port Arthur Convict Photographs. National Library Australia. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-642-27709-1.
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