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Title: Natives of northern India
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Subjects: Ethnology -- India India -- Social conditions India -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. Constable and Company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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effect on the carpet industry.As regards cloth, the imitation of European fashionsamong the higher classes has led to the substitution ofthe shawl by English broad-cloth and tweed. The tradein stamping cotton fabrics seems to have originated inthe old capital of Kanauj, and it still survives in theneighbouring city of Farrukhabad. The prosperity ofthe trade depends entirely on fashion, and it is uncertainwhether the progress recently made will be permanent.The Darzi, or tailor, is hardly a regular village crafts-man. The trade has never been important among theHindus, who do not, as a rule, wear tailor-made clothes.It is only in places where the Mohammedan or Englishstyle of dress prevails that the business flourishes. Ofthis higher form of the trade there are various kinds,such as the making of the elaborate turbans worn byoffice clerks and domestic servants, the gaudy em-broidered caps which the young man of fashion prefers,and the making of tents, an important industry in a No. 16
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A Mohammedan Fakir (p. 122) VILLAGE INDUSTRIES 139 country where practically all officials live under canvasduring the cold season. Hence the trade of the Darziis precarious. As the common proverb expresses it— His needle is now in embroidery, now in canvas. Thecraft of the tailor is not one of the specialised industries,and is practised by people of many castes and ofdifferent religions. The Dhobi, or washerman, who deals in foul linen,and specially that used by persons in a state of taboo,such as women at parturition, is naturally a person ofno estimation. He is not an essential member of aHindu village community, because nearly every man,as he takes his morning bath, washes and wrings outhis own loin-cloth, and his wife seldom washes thesingle sheet which forms her only dress. The Dhobismethods are even cruder than those of his westernsister. His mode of washing a shirt is to soap it, andthen to pound it on a stone until the dirt disappearsfrom what remains of the garment. His so

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