Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s2.t1.7

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The stuffs worn by the rich usually consisted of a variety of silks, fine muslins, fine linen, brocade, satin and a variety of furs—beaver, ermine, marten, sable.¹ In cold weather while the rich used furs and fine wool, the poor wore stuffed cotton and a variety of rough blankets. The manufacture of fine cloth had attained an unusual degree of excellence. Of this we have many poetic and fanciful descriptions from the pen of Amir Khusrau who in spite of his enthusiastic exaggerations of language, reveals to us a great deal of refinement and skill among the workers.² Deogir and Mahadeva-nagari in the