[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 10.4 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 10.4 Travels in India (Ball) 10.4 - **Language:** English ### [10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.10.4) Burhānpur is a large, much-ruined town, of which the houses are for the most part covered with thatch. It has a large castle still standing in the middle of the town, and it is there that the Governor resides. The government of this province is so important that it is conferred only upon a son or an uncle of the King, and Aurangzeb, who now reigns, was for a long time Governor of Burhānpur during the reign of his father. But since they have realised what can be yielded by the province of Bengal, which formerly bore the title of kingdom, as I shall elsewhere indicate, its government is now the most considerable in the Empire of the Great Mogul. There is a large trade in this town, and both at Burhānpur itself and in all the province an enormous quantity of very transparent muslins are made, which are exported to Persia, Turkey, Muscovie, Poland, Arabia, Grand Cairo, and other places. Some of these are dyed various colours and with flowers, and women make veils and scarfs of them; they also serve for the covers of beds, and for handkerchiefs, such as we see in Europe with those who take snuff. There are other fabrics, which they allow to remain white, with a stripe or two of gold or silver the whole length of the piece, and at each of the ends, from the breadth of one inch up to twelve or fifteen — in some more, and in others less — it is a tissue of gold, silver, and of silk with flowers, whereof there is no reverse, one side being as beautiful as the other. - [Previous: 10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.10.3) - [Next: 10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.10.5) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.10.4) · Pramāṇa