Improving the Performance of Sponsorship
... BAFTA Awards ceremonies and the BAFTA Film Awards announced in February each year are a bellwether of the fortunes of films that are voted on for the Hollywood Oscars . Over the years , the BAFTAs have grown in stature and significance ...
Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East: 1615; ed. by W. Foster. 1899
... baftas and to blue baftas the baharr ; and finding that the blue baftas would not sell , in regard they rise very coarse , we offered them first II and then 12 , yet none would buy of them ; now , these blue baftas being the chief means ...
The English Factories in India, 1630-1633
... baftas 1 of Broach , Baroda , and Surat , with 30,000 of broad baftas of Broach and Baroda . The narrow baftas should be mostly of the cheaper sorts ( of 2 or 21⁄2 mahmūdīs apiece ) , but with 4,000 of from 2 to 4 mahmūdīs , 3,000 of ...
The English Factories in India: 1624-1633
... baftas 1 of Broach , Baroda , and Surat , with 30,000 of broad baftas of Broach and Baroda . The narrow baftas should be mostly of the cheaper sorts ( of 2 or 21⁄2 mahmūdīs apiece ) , but with 4,000 of from 2 to 4 mahmūdīs , 3,000 of ...
The English Factories in India: 1618-1623
... Baftas broad , ' 8 pieces ' Broad baftaes , ' 5,302 pieces Sundry stuffs , 10 corge3 Baftas for table napkins , 80 pieces ' Reeses , ' 275 pieces . Bloodstones , 8,500 274,942 7 276. 3 120 16 • 33,195 21 187 0 . 218. Ο 1,150.10 119 0 ...
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Materials towards a statistical account of the town and island of Bombay (3 vols.) v. 1. History. v. 2. Trade and fortifications. v. 3. Administration
... baftas , they now do it in half the time and so proportionately in all sorts of cloth . This occasions a much larger quantity coming to market and the weavers are obliged to sell them off speedily that they may be enabled to buy a ...
The English Factories in India: 1630-1633
... baftas 1 of Broach , Baroda , and Surat , with 30,000 of broad baftas of Broach and Baroda . The narrow baftas should be mostly of the cheaper sorts ( of 2 or 21⁄2 mahmūdīs apiece ) , but with 4,000 of from 2 to 4 mahmūdīs , 3,000 of ...
Hobson-Jobson
... BAFTA , 8. A kind of calico , made especially at Baroch ; from the Pers . bafta , ' woven . ' The old Baroch baftas seem to have been fine goods . Nothing is harder than to find intelligible ex- planations of the distinction between the ...
Surat In The Seventeenth Century
... baftas was 14 or 141⁄2 yards and the Broach baftas were reputed to be the first in goodness , proportion of length to breadth , and cheapness . The Dutch preferred baftas 28 yards long and the Broach baftas were narrower than those made ...
The English Factories in India 1618-1669
... Baftas broad , ' 8 pieces ' Broad baftaes , ' 5,302 pieces 33,195 Sundry stuffs , 10 corge3 Baftas for table napkins , 80 pieces ' Reeses ' , ' 275 pieces . Bloodstones , 8,500 276 3 120 16 21 187 0 218 • 1,150 . 10 119 0 • ' Baftas ...
Port Towns in Medieval India, 1605 A.D.-1707 A.D.
... Baftas Board , 1,000 pieces Mahumudies 6,777 Pice 24 Baftas narrow ( Mames ) or watchetts , I corge 160 29 Baftas of 2 ( ) broad 1 pieces 24 6 Necanieg 21 C ( Orge ) , 15 covids long & 1.5 / 12 broad 1,320 0 Bramees 7 covids long 21.1 ...
A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words And Phrases
... Bafta is at present the name applied to a silk fabric . ( See quotation from Yusuf Ali below . ) In Bengal , Charpata and Noakhali in the Chittagong Division were also noted for their cotton baftas ( Birdwood , Industr . Arts , 249 ) ...
The English Factories in India, 1618- ...
... Baftas broad , ' 8 pieces ' Broad baftaes , ' 5,302 pieces Sundry stuffs , 10 corge3 Baftas for table napkins , 80 pieces ' Reeses ' , ' 275 pieces . Bloodstones , 8,500 276 3 120 16 • 33,195 21 187 0 • 218 0 • 1,150.10 119 0 ...
Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623
... Bafta .. 2 2 18 1 1 8 TO FONGO DONO2 the Admiral of Orungow3 viz . 2 Byrammas .. 2 Baftas .. .. 2 Selas 4 Rangins 4 Alleyas TO GOTO SHOZNERA1 the mintmaster viz . 4 yards black cloath No. 169 4 Stamet دو 4 Chauters 10 Baftas 5 Byrames ...
A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679
... Bafta . See Ind . Ant . vol . xxix . p . 337 . " Blew Baftas , Broad Baftas and Gold Baftas " were much in request in England in T. B.'s time . Murray , Oxford English Dict . has , " Baft . A kind of coarse and cheap ( generally cotton ) ...
English Commercial Relations with the Asiatics, 1600-1615
... bafta = a kind of calico made especially in Baroch . The old Baroch baftas seem to have been fine goods . Nothing is harder than to find intelligible explan- ations of the distinction between the numerous var- ieties of cotton stuffs ...
Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
... Baftas . Mr. Addams his hoste came and brought me a letter , which he had lefte with him the last monsone when he ... Bafta of 16 rials per Corge . Giuen more to 7 of the Kinges women which came aboard with him 3 peeses Bafta of 20 ...
Indian Antiquary
... bafta ... ... ... ... ... 337 Blair , earliest letters of Capt . , from Anda- bafta explained 337 ... ... ... ... ... mans , 103 ; his " instructions , " 104 ff .; baftie = bafta ... ... ... ... ... 337 builds a boat at Port Blair ...
The English Factories in India
... Baftas broad , ' 8 pieces ' Broad baftaes , ' 5,302 pieces Sundry stuffs , 10 corge3 Baftas for table napkins , 80 pieces ' Reeses , ' 275 pieces . Bloodstones , 8,500 ' Baftas narrowe , ' 980 pieces 274,942 7 276 • 3 120 16 ...
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency
... Baftas , 1677 . 134 BOMBAY TOWN We again remind you of this most important affair and desire to know what quantities of broad and narrow baftas we may depend upon from you this year , that we may govern ourselves accordingly . Also we ...