‘… there’s one particular variety of Gossypium Arboreum that’s mentioned in all texts as being really important for muslin production around Dhaka, which has this bright-red stem which is shown in the painting in the East India Company collection’
– Dr. Mark Nesbitt, Curator, Economic Botany Collection, Kew Gardens
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Painting of phuti karpas
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Cotton samples at herbarium in Kolkata
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Preserved samples of phuti karpas, Kolkata
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Kew herbarium, UK
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Discussing with Dr. Nesbitt, Kew, UK
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Preserved samples of phuti karpas
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Fossilised seeds and cotton of G Arboreum, UK
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Boating on the Meghna in search of phuti karpas, 2014
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Team travelling on the Meghna searching for cotton samples, 2014
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Showing villagers flyers of phuti karpas, 2014
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Speaking with locals about phuti karpas, 2014
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Surveying the banks of the Meghna for cotton cultivation, June 2014
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Finding samples of cotton plants at Mymensingh University, 2014
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Speaking with local people in Barisal about phuti karpas, 2014
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Locals pointing out wild cotton plants, Barisal, 2014
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Searching for phuti karpas at the Royal Jordan herbarium
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Searching for phuti karpas in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
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Searching for phuti karpas at Nagpur Cotton Research Centre, India
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Samples of G Arboreum at Nagpur, India
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Discussing muslin with Dr Pal at Jagdish Chandra Bose Gardens, Kolkata
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Observing weaving practices in Assam, searching for phuti karpas
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Cultivating land for phuti karpas at Gazipur on the Meghna riverbank
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Ground preparation for cotton cultivation, Gazipur
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Phuti Karpas growing on Meghna river bank
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Early signs of cotton, Gazipur, on Meghna river bank
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First cotton buds, phuti karpas, near river Meghna, Gazipur
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Ground preparation being done for cotton planting, Gazipur
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Ground preparation of Drik-BM plot, near Kapasia, Gazipur
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Cotton seed plantation by CDB officials, near Kapasia, Gazipur
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Cotton buds on plants, Kapasia, Gazipur
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Cotton seed plantation by CDB officals, Kapasia, Gazipur
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Phuti karpas plants blooming on trial plot, Gazipur
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Phuti karpas plants growing on sample plot, Gazipur
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Locally grown phuti karpas plant, Kapasia, Gazipur
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DNA test of phuti karpas being done, UK
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DNA testing of phuti karpas, UK
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Phuti karpas DNA analysis being done, UK
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Phuti karpas plant grown by Drik-BM