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Show 9 1 driver of an automobile who was willing to undertake the rough route necesewly-acquired guide, Mr. Syed Mohommed, Mr. Ratnam, Mr e 1, with baskets of food and bottles of water, dcpu\e carly in the morning with the Paper Village as our objective. The first he road was splendid, wide and smooth, like some of the finest dnue; after a few miles the road becam highways.This di narrower, unul finally it was reduced to a mere rutted right-of-way cu mwugh the brush. We drove over great rocks, forded streams and swamps and at last stuck fast in the thick, heavy mud. We were told b guide S i year; had we at to visit the paper districts of Hyderabad at any other period espe ing the rainy season, we should have been disappointed, as it woul be n out of the question to reach the villages even on foot. Through carefu driving and perseverance the native chauffeurwa dcate us an c us to within three miles of Kagaziguda, so we had no great distanc to walk In the Paper Village I counted about eleven vats, though not all wer per centre of Hyderabad, there were close ire native state under the rule of Hi dred dipping-vats, but only about twenty in actual use. In Hyderabad, asi all other parts of India, the craft of papermaking is fast dying, and a fe years more will see the end of this ancient trade The first mill we entered in Kagaziguda was operated by Mr. Maha‘boobsab, a man of some fifty years, who kept his cows in the courtyard o the cottage-mill. Photograph 68. He went through the various b o papermaking for us, but the technique was the same as has alread described. Another interesting mill in the Paper Village was that of Mr Swaikali, who also demonstrated the making of paper, and shove ‘method of polishing the sheets. Photographs 69-70. For this purpose he use Digital image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts resarved |