Rise of the Kashimbazar under the Influence of Silk Industry during the Nawab Period

Murshidabad is one of the biggest customary silk creating regions in West Bengal, which bears a brilliant legacy of delivering best silk in India since seventeenth century. Kashimbazar was one of the significant focuses of silk acquire for the British silk dealers. The business went into extraordinary decline as the Industrial Revolution in West set in. In the post Independence time frame endeavors were made to revive this locally established distinctive industry in India to make greater business and pay openings in the rustic economy. Records show that the silk weavers of Murshidabad were working in eighteenth century when Nawab Murshid Quli Khan (1717-1727) moved the capital of the Dewanee of Bengal from Dhaka, presently in Bangladesh, to another capital he based on the east bank of the River Bhagirathi and named Murshidabad. Murshidabad is popular for its cowdial saris made of fine mulberry silk with level, dark red or maroon outskirts made with three transports. The fringes are attached with fine indented plan in gold zari. Murshidabad silks are likewise popular for hand-printed plans and different materials which are too printed with wooden squares. Calcutta and Serampore in the Hooghly region are the principle material hand-printing focuses in West Bengal. In this paper I propose to display the brilliant period of Silk industry at Murshidabad and the cost of silk, business and disparaged by Nawab’s power on this industry and furthermore the rancher's condition. When silk products of Murshidabad were sent out to the various nations of the world. In sixteenth century Murshidabad sent out its silk item to the shorelines of East Africa, Arabia, Turkey, Syria and different Countries.