Mughal Administration c14.s3.7
Mughal Administration c14.s3.7
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c14.s3.7
The Arab geographer Dimishqi writes, "The Sultan has a manufactory in which 400 silk-weavers are employed, and where they make stuffs of all kinds for the dresses of the persons attached to the Court, for robes of honour and presents, in addition to the stuffs which are brought every year from China, Iraq, and Alexandria. Every year the Sultan distributes 200,000 complete dresses......Dresses are also distributed to the [Muslim] monasteries and hermitages......