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Title: | Remarks on the Silk Worms and silks of Assam |
Authors: | Hugon, Thomas |
Keywords: | Silkworms -- India -- Assam Silk -- India -- Assam Assam (India) -- Description and Travel Mulberry -- India |
Issue Date: | 1837 |
Publisher: | Malta Mail Office |
Citation: | Hugon, T. (1837). Remarks on the Silk Worms and silks of Assam. Melitensia Miscellanea Collection (Melit-Misc. vol. 53.12). University of Malta Library, Melitensia Special Collections. |
Abstract: | The following worms producing silk are found in Assam. The mulberry worm ( large and small,) the eria, the mooga, or moonga, the kontkuri, the deo mooga, and the haumpottonee. The five last are indigenous to the country, but there are no reasons to suppose that the first is likewise so. The mulberry is scarce, and none is found in the wild state. The time of the Introduction could be, perhaps, ascertained in some of the Assamese booronjees or chronicles - (which I was unable to procure immediately to ascertain the point; some of them extending several centuries back- as the Assamese got religious instructors fom Bengal, it is very probable they also got from there the mulberry tree and worm. The use of the silk being confined to the raja and grandees, and the rearing or the worm to one Caste, are additional proofs that its introduction did not precede that of Hinduism - the joogees (the caste alluded to) must evidently have come up with it; the Assamese refuse to rear the silk worm but not having this objection to the other worms would be one proof of the latter being indigenous, were it doubtful... [Excerpt] |
Description: | Article for the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. VI for 1837. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124220 |
Appears in Collections: | Miscellania : volume 053 - A&SCMisc |
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