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Peshgeer
Cotton printed cloth made of English threads, used for petticoats for poor people. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peshgeer is one of the obsolete cotton piece goods produced in the Indian subcontinent. Peshgeer was a type of woven, printed material.
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John Forbes Watson describes Peshgeer as cotton printed cloth made of English threads, used in "petticoats of poorer classes". A sample in Fabric book gives its origin as Shikarpore, in the Sind province of Pakistan.[1][2][3]
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In the mid-1800s, Palle-manufactured Peshgeer was priced in the range of Rs 22-40/piece.[4][5]
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