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The Blue Gold: Bengal's Muslin Trade and the Weavers Who Lost Everything
Before Manchester, before the Industrial Revolution, Bengal wove the world's finest fabric. Muslin — so light it could pass through a ring, so translucent it was called 'woven air' — was Bengal's signature luxury, exported from Dhaka to Rome, to the courts of Mughal emperors and beyond. But when the East India Company took control of Bengal after Plassey and Buxar, they didn't just tax the weavers; they broke them. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the journey of a single thread: from the cotton fields of the Brahmaputra floodplains to the looms of Dhaka's…
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