Silk cloth from Bengal
- British colonial
An 1825 British survey says silk cloth was brought into Cuttack from nearby districts of Bengal. This is a different, finer cloth from Odisha's own rough tasar silk, which travelled the other way.
Fine Bengal silk arrived in Cuttack, while Odisha's own rough tasar silk went the other way.
An 1825 British survey says silk cloth came into Cuttack from nearby districts of Bengal. This was a different, finer cloth. Odisha’s own rough tasar silk travelled the other way. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]
For scholars
Only one source documents this import. Stirling does not say what kind of silk it was, or how much arrived. Do not confuse this with the tasar-silk entry. That is Odisha’s own wild silk, moving in the opposite direction. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]
Facts
- Category
- Textile
- Direction
- Imported into Kalinga
Scholar notes
Only one source documents this import. Stirling does not say what kind of silk this was or how much arrived. Do not confuse this with the tasar-silk entry, which is Odisha's own wild silk moving in the opposite direction.
- Andrew Stirling. *An Account, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of Orissa Proper or Cuttack*. in Asiatic Researches 15. 1825. public domain , p. 194 ('Piece goods, silk, good tobacco, and every thing in the shape of a luxury, are imported from the adjoining districts of Bengal'.)