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What Maheshwari Fabric from Madhya Pradesh Reveals About the Layered History of Indian Textile Trade

The town that made cloth for queensMaheshwar sits on the northern bank of the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh, and the river is not incidental to the fabric. The weavers, called Maheshwari weavers, from the Salvi community, worked within earshot of the water for centuries before Ahilyabai Holkar arrived and changed...

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