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'''Gurrah''' (garat) was a kind of [[calico]] produced in [[Northeast India]] during the 18th century. Gurrah was one of the cotton [[piece goods]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Theobald|first=William|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTgUAAAAYAAJ&q=Gurrah+cotton&pg=PA72|title=The Legislative Acts of the Governor General of India in Council of 1867, with Abstracts Prefixed, Table of Contents and Index: In Continuation of Acts from 1834 to the Present Time|date=1868|publisher=Thacker, Spink|pages=72|language=en}}</ref> exported to England and France.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Tortora|first1=Phyllis G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTYfAQAAQBAJ&q=Gurrah+cotton&pg=PA276|title=The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles|last2=Johnson|first2=Ingrid|date=2013-09-17|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-60901-535-0|pages=276|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Watson|first=John Forbes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=En0BAAAAQAAJ&q=Gurrah+cotton&pg=PA48|title=New Zealand exhibition, 1865, a classified list of contributions from British India and its dependencies|date=1864|pages=48|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Watson|first=John Forbes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAxCAQAAMAAJ&q=Gurrah+cotton&pg=PA160|title=The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India|date=1866|publisher=India Office|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Name ==<br />
Gurrah may be a name stemmed from Hindi {{Lang|hi-Latn|garha}}.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Raut|first=Lakshmi Narayan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dStuAAAAMAAJ&q=Gurrah+cotton|title=Socio-economic Life in Medieval Orissa, 1568-1751|date=1988|publisher=Punthi Pustak|isbn=978-81-85094-18-2|pages=146|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Characteristics ==<br />
Gurrah was a typical quality plain cloth.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Heney|first=Helen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OVnaAAAAMAAJ&q=Gurrah+cotton|title=Australia's Founding Mothers|date=1978|publisher=Nelson|isbn=978-0-17-005091-3|pages=215|language=en}}</ref> It was an unbleached cotton material.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbLjAAAAMAAJ&q=Gurrah+cotton|title=Studies in Islam: Quarterly Journal of the Indian Institute of Islamic Studies|date=1968|publisher=The Institute|pages=34|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Use ==<br />
It was processed and used in many [[household]] items such as [[table cloth]], etc. Gurrah was also used for [[Textile printing|printing]] base material in [[England]] and [[France]].<ref name=":0" /> Gurrah was also a part of Indian cloths exported to America.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bean|first=Susan S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6I8V9hNFP8C&q=Gurrah+cotton|title=Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail, 1784-1860|date=2001|publisher=Peabody Essex Museum|isbn=978-81-85822-83-9|pages=75|language=en}}</ref><br />
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Gurrah has been mentioned as a dress material in [[petticoat]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barnard|first=Edwin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFO-IsXQnp0C&q=Gurrah+cotton&pg=PA91|title=Exiled: The Port Arthur Convict Photographs|date=2010|publisher=National Library Australia|isbn=978-0-642-27709-1|pages=91|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Bafta cloth]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Woven fabrics]]<br />
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