{"id":4522,"date":"2018-05-12T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T09:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2018-05-12T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T09:08:49","slug":"from-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=4522","title":{"rendered":"From Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A letter in archives show a letter received from France by Mowla Dad in Kashmeeri Bazaar Lahore. There were vast French people in the time of the Sikhs in Lahore and an industry of carpets and shawls flourished here. Probably a well scripted letter from Paris, France means a dealer of shawls in Lahore receiving orders for same. No one today remembers Mowla Dad at all, but it looks like a Muslim shawl dealer with business connections as far as France itself. Post to Lahore was through at times Multan or more often through Bombay. The name was enough as no numbers are there.\u00a0Well done, Lahore!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4523\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4523\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868-672x372.jpg 672w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-1868.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter 1868<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter in archives show a letter received from France by Mowla Dad in Kashmeeri Bazaar Lahore. There were vast French people in the time of the Sikhs in Lahore and an industry of carpets and shawls flourished here. Probably a well scripted letter from Paris, France means a dealer of shawls in Lahore receiving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=4522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Archives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}