A Monograph on the Silk Fabrics of Bengal

About The Book : This Monograph has been prepared according to the directions contained in the Revenue Department Circular No. 10, dated the 29th November 1898, which requires that the Monograph "should give a complete review of all branches of the silk industry." The subject will be dealt with in five parts. The first part will refer to the first raw material, viz., the mulberry and the silk-worm; the second part will deal with silk yarns; the third part, with commercial and industrial questions the fourth part, with weaving proper, and the fifth part, with the Tasar and Endi or Erz silk industries. All the parts, however, will be treated from the point of view of the silk fabrics. About The Author : N.G. Mukerji (d.-1907), of the Bengal Provincial Civil Service, Author of the Handbook of Sericulture and Handbook of Indian Agriculture. Rangpur, Dinajpur, Purnea and Bhagalpur were recognised in the eighteenth century among the mulberry silk-producing districts of Bengal. Patna produced better silks than Murshidabad in the middle of the seventeenth century. In those days Santipore also ranked with Maldah and Cossimbazar as silk-weaving centres.