Indian Textiles at Mozambique Island in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

2017/01/02 by Edward A. Alpers
Social Sciences · #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #African history and culture studies

paper · doi:10.1080/00404969.2017.1294816

Abstract

Building upon the work of scholars writing about Indian textiles and the textile trade of the western Indian Ocean, I examine a combined list of nearly eighty different specific types of Indian cotton cloths that were imported at Mozambique Island in the 1750s. In the absence of physical evidence, I seek first to identify each specific textile using archival and literary sources and then to categorise them according to provenance, design and price.

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