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Moving pictures: How 18th-19th century textile labels travelled the world with stories of India

Published on: Jan. 3, 2026, 7:30 p.m. | Source: Scroll.in

Lavishly illustrated postcard-sized paper labels pasted on mill-manufactured cloth reflected and even subverted ideas of commerce in cotton under colonialism.

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