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    Silk In India, about 97% of the raw mulberry silk is produced in the Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Mysore and...
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    modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years...
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    Mysore Silk saree produced in its factory. Art silk Bombyx mori History of silk Mommes Rayon Silk in the Indian subcontinent Silk Road Spider silk Tenun...
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    History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent can be traced to the Indus Valley civilization or earlier. Indians have mainly worn clothing made up of...
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  • of coarse silk from the Indian subcontinent. It was mainly produced with pierced cocoons. A pierced cocoon is one from which the moth of the silkworm has...
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  • Shia Islam was brought to the Indian subcontinent during the final years of the Rashidun Caliphate. The Indian subcontinent also served as a refuge for...
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    teaching an older child of 12 the trade. Silk in the Indian subcontinent Gudavarthy, Ajay (2012). Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political...
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    of tropical fruits such as mango and melon are native to the Indian subcontinent. The Indians also domesticated hemp, which they used for a number of applications...
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    Sari (redirect from Silk saree)
    from the Indian subcontinent, that consists of an un-stitched stretch of woven fabric arranged over the body as a robe, with one end attached to the waist...
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    The Maritime Silk Road or Maritime Silk Route is the maritime section of the historic Silk Road that connected China, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent...
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    revivalism and predominant role of Hindu temple architecture in the Indian Subcontinent. A strongly probable shrine from Upper Paleolithic period dated...
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    Banarasi sari (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
    Bunkar: The Last of the Varanasi Weavers Silk in the Indian subcontinent Zari Pochampally sari Mysore silk Ilkal sari List of fabrics "Different Types...
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    in the Indian subcontinent is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military...
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    while the Indian portion remains on the tentative site list. The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk, first developed in China...
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    more productive. Silk, wool, and linen fabrics were being eclipsed by cotton which became the most important textile. Innovations in carding and spinning...
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    Byzantine silk is silk woven in the Byzantine Empire (Byzantium) from about the fourth century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Byzantine...
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  • including those from the historic Indian subcontinent and the modern-day republic of India. It draws from the whole cultural and technological history...
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  • silk Silk in the Indian subcontinent Silk Road "MURSHIDABAD SILK". search.ipindia.gov.in. Retrieved 16 August 2023. "Murshidabad Silk : The Story of Golden...
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  • made of silk with a wide cut and straight in shape. The Dhilja was a garment of the Mughal clothing of ladies in the Indian subcontinent in the late 17th...
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    people of the Indian subcontinent and the Republic of India since 1949. The designation "Bhārata" appears in the official Sanskrit name of the country,...
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    distance silk trade is the finding of silk in the hair of an Egyptian mummy of the 21st dynasty, c.1070 BC. The silk trade reached as far as the Indian subcontinent...
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    Indo-Roman trade relations (category Roman-Indian relations)
    relations (see also the spice trade and incense road) was trade between the Indian subcontinent and the Roman Empire in Europe and the Mediterranean Sea...
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  • an Indian brocade woven of silk and gold or silver thread. The word kimkhwāb, derived from the Persian, means "a little dream", Kimkhwāb, known in India...
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    Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious...
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  • Hormos to the subcontinent, whereas formerly, under the Ptolemies, only a very few ventured to undertake the voyage and to carry on traffic in Indian merchandise...
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    Ancient Indian scripts have been used in the history of the Indian subcontinent as writing systems. The Indian subcontinent consists of various separate...
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    process." The decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent coincides with the spread of Islam in that part of the world, especially due to the Islamic...
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    and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically, it spans the entire Indian subcontinent, including what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka...
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  • on the Indian subcontinent. The Maurya Empire (321–185 BC) was the largest and one of the most powerful empires to exist in the history of the Indian subcontinent...
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    Khyber Pass (category Sites along the Silk Road)
    of the White Mountains. Since it was part of the ancient Silk Road, it has been a vital trade route between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent and...
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