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Textiles in ancient India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Varanasi; Vishavidyalaya prakashan; 1994Description: 192pISBN:
  • 8171241212
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.47677 KIR
Summary: Dr. Kiran Singh's book deals with the history of Indian Textiles from very early times to the Mauryan period. Textiles form an integral part of material culture everywhere. It has a wide coverage dealing with subjects such as raw materials of textiles, spinning, weaving, dyeing, embroidery, trade and com merce-internal as well as foreign-trade routes, labour, and guilds which regulated economic activity. The book contains many maps, plates and pictures which illustrate several things relating to textiles. Altogether the present book presents a comprehensive, balanced and straightforward account of a highly important aspect of economic life in ancient India. The specialist and the general reader, both will find the book on Indian Textiles extremely useful.
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Dr. Kiran Singh's book deals with the history of Indian Textiles from very early times to the Mauryan period. Textiles form an integral part of material culture everywhere. It has a wide coverage dealing with subjects such as raw materials of textiles, spinning, weaving, dyeing, embroidery, trade and com merce-internal as well as foreign-trade routes, labour, and guilds which regulated economic activity. The book contains many maps, plates and pictures which illustrate several things relating to textiles.

Altogether the present book presents a comprehensive, balanced and straightforward account of a highly important aspect of economic life in ancient India. The specialist and the general reader, both will find the book on Indian Textiles extremely useful.

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