A History of Agriculture in India v2.c84.s1: Gujarat Trade
A History of Agriculture in India v2.c84.s1
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Gujarat Trade
v2.c84.s1.1
'Ahmadabad is the capital of Gujarat, and receives annually from Agra large quantities of goods, for example, much Patna silk, to be manufactured there into ormesines, satins, velvets, and various kinds of curious stuffs,' states Pelsaert. 'Carpets are also woven there with an intermixture of silk and gold thread; while the imports include spikenard, tzierila, asafoetida, pipel and numerous such drugs, . . . and clothing for Hindu women from Bengal and the Eastern provinces, pamris from Kashmir and Lahore, and Bengal kand or white sugar. In the other direction are brought hither turbans, girdles, orhnis or women's head-coverings, worked very cleverly and ingeniously with gold thread; also velvets, satin of various kinds, striped, flowered, or plain; coconuts from Malabar; European woollen goods; lead, tin, quick-silver, vermilion; large quantities of spice, viz. cloves, nutmeg and mace, and sandalwood.'³
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³ Moreland, W.H. and Geyl, P. (tr). *Jahangir's India—the Remonstrantie of Francisco Pelsaert*, p. 19
v2.c84.s1.3
Travelling was full of hazards in Gujarat in 1638. The Rajputs—a kind of 'Highwaymen or Tories', Mandelslo calls them—infested the roads, and he had to journey in company with large caravans, and even then had occasion to fight for his life.