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Indian Handicrafts and their Decline
The Chief Mart of the World
When Greece and Italy, those cradles of European civilization, nursed only tenants of wilderness; when Western Europe, that birth place of modern industrialism, was inhabited by ‘uncivilized savages’, and when Egypt and Rome, those centres of culture and classics were in their ‘decline and fall’, India was still enjoying a worldwide celebrity for the wealth of her rulers and the high artistic skill of her craftsmen. The skill and dexterity of the Indian worker was something proverbial and envied by his counterparts all over the world. The Indian products reached every corner of the globe and were the esteemed possessions of mighty empires. The proudest beauties of the Imperial ...
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