Question

What is jamdani?
What is bandanna?
Who are the Agaria?

Answer 1

Hint:The question has three parts ,each part will be answered one by one.The question deals with the jamdani,bandanna and Agaria. Cotton and Silk textile market in Europe Indian Textiles were most popular. their fine quality and craftsmanship.

Complete answer:
Cotton and Silk textile market in Europe Indian Textiles were most popular. their fine quality and craftsmanship different varieties of Indian Textiles were highly in demand and therefore sold in western markets, some of them included Vandana, jamdani, coasses. There was a craze for printed Indian cotton Textiles in England and Europe .Especially for the floral design, fine texture was really in demand as they were relatively cheap in the market.
 Bandana refers to a variety of cloth with bright colours which was produced through a method of tying and dying. Jamdani is a fine muslin cloth on which decorative motifs are worn on the loom typically they are in grey and white.
 Iron smelting furnaces are mostly built of clay and sun-dried bricks. The men did smelting work and while women worked in the bellows pumping air that kept charcoal burning.The demand for iron smelters was lowered in the nineteen century as iron steel was being imported from Britain . Agaria is a community who specialise in craft of iron smelting.

Note:When the colonial government prevented the people from entering the forest the iron smelters could not find the wood for charcoal to light the Furnace, they could not also get iron ore therefore they had to give up their craft and look for other means of livelihood.