brocade-worker

Updated: May 15, 2025

Mark too the hurried steps of the brocade-worker from Surat, and note the contrast of colour as the grimy fitter or black-smith passes through the porch side by side with the spotlessly-clad Konkani Musulman, whose high features and olive skin betray his Indo-Arab origin. Rich and poor, clean and unclean, all pass in to prayer.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay