Kashmir: Its New Silk Industry: With Some Account of Its Natural History, Geology, Sport, Etc., and with Forty-five Full-plate Illustrations of Kashmir Scenery, and of Sport, Industry, Fossils, Etc., Also Notes of a Visit to the Silk-producing Districts of Bengal in 1885-6Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1904 - 363 pages |
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Page 44 - State to succeed him ; for there is no spectacle which finds less favour in my eyes, or which I have done more to discourage, than that of a cluster of Europeans settling down upon a Native State and sucking from it the moisture which ought to give sustenance to its own people.
Page 15 - ... for centuries, from the days when Bactrian silk was exported to Damascus and other centres of manufacture. There is little doubt that Kashmir formed a part of the ancient kingdom of Bactria before the Christian era, and that some of the raw silk that found its way to the west came from Kashmir also. Nothing, however, is known in Kashmir about the origin of its silk industry, beyond the fact that it is very ancient, and that it is intimately connected with that of Bukhara, with which it has always...
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Page 16 - ... business was too official, and the general public looked upon it with hatred or disgust. Next it may be said that the revival was too ambitious. The cost of buildings and plant was enormous, and the rearing-houses being scattered in all parts of the valley could not be properly supervised. Unfortunately there was no one possessing any technical knowledge to supervise, and though great improvements were made in reeling, there was no man in Kashmfr who could avert the calamity which befell the...
Page 290 - I cannot escape from the conclusion that the contortion, compression, and upheaval which marked the earth movements that set in at the close of the Eocene period, were connected with the intrusion of the gneissose granite.
Page 279 - I have driven through the length of this valley of wondrous beauty, about 80 miles, and 35 miles wide. It seems full of mulberry trees, and secures the home of an industry, which even after its present marvellous expansion is yet but the nucleus of an immense future development, if it can be retained and managed by the State, and so preserved from commercial rivalries.
Page 307 - THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE ON SILK HELD IN THE OFFICE OF THE REVENUE AND AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AT CALCUTTA, ON THE STH JANUARY, 1886.