In 1855, an international exhibition was held in Paris to promote global trade. At the time, much of India was under the control of the British East India Company, who ruled it in the name of the British crown. British colonial officials sent thousands of Indian trade goods to Paris to show what could be bought from, and sold to, the people of India. Among the trade goods they sent were over 100 lengths of South Indian checked cotton handkerchiefs as examples of what 'the people make for themselves'.

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Entry no. 188: On Madras Selecting Committee deputed for the 1855 Paris Exhibition and their report