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The Cotton That Changed the World: Bengal's Dhaka Muslin
Before Manchester, before the Industrial Revolution, there was Dhaka muslin — the finest cotton cloth ever woven, so delicate it was called 'woven air.' In this episode of The Hidden History of Bengal, Lucas and Luna explore the rise and fall of Bengal's legendary muslin industry. They follow the journey of the phuti carpus cotton plant, grown only in the alluvial soil along the Meghna River, and the women weavers in Dhaka and Sonargaon who transformed it into fabric that could pass through a ring. We meet the British East India Company agents who drained the art, the…
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