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. 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. 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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