Acknowledgments Foreword Preface The Roots of Indian Paper Preserving the Word The Arabs Liberate Paper Secrets A Prospering Paper Craft The Path of Paper Conquerors and Craftsmen Paper's Northwestern Frontier Sialkot Kashmir Paper in the Northeastern Crescent, Kalpi Agra and Mathura Zafarabad Bihar and Bengal Delhi: Days of Papermaking Western India's Wave of Paper Gujarat Rajasthan The Deccan: Middle India Daulatabad: Fabled Fortress - Medieval Paper Centre K4zipura at Khuldabad Erandol: City of Paper Ruins Making Traditional Indian Paper The Materials of Paper The World of the Written Word before Paper Materials Used by the First Papermakers The Papermaker's Garden 110 Pulp Pounders The Mould: The Papermaker's Ally The Dimension of Paper Creating the Paper Sheet Drying Paper in India's Warm Domain Coating Paper with Size 134 Hand Polishing Paper Sheets Colouring Paper 146 Paper of Gold 151 Bird Paper Masterful Marbled Papers, Stencils and Cut-Paper The Strange Transparent Deer and Snake Paper Recycled Paper: An Indian Tradition Using Every Resource 'apier Mache, Influences Towards Change: Contemporary Handmade Paper Encounters with the West Jail house Paper Recycled Paper: An Indian Tradition Using Every Resource 178 Papier Mache. Mountain Paper In search of Indian Paper's Lost Himalayan Roots The Strong Lustrous Plant of High Mountain Paper 194 Making Mountain Paper The Mysterious "Big-Paper" of the North Pundit Paper Gandhian Efforts to Help Rescue Papermakers Government Rescue for Papermakers 1990s Turn Around: An Unpredicted Blossoming of Traditional and Contemporary Paper Units throughout India List of Indian Handmade Papermakers Fibre List