Among the English factors in India, 17ᵗʰ century, “the unit by which indigo was generally bought. It is often termed by the factors a bundle (or fardle). The greater churl was a little over five maunds in weight; the smaller, about four.”¹
1. William Foster.
The English Factories in India. 1618-1621. A Calendar of Documents in the
India Office, British Museum and Public Record Office.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.
Page 60.
Indigo dust, 9 churls
Goods sent for England in the Royal Anne (Brit. Mus.
Egerton MS. 2122, f. 55)
in Foster, cited above, page 61.
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