The Silk Saga: The Insect That Ruled The World

This book covers all the aspects of silk that have not been seen in India in general. The book uncovers the hidden tussle between bamboo silk and cocoon silk and the impending silk trade monopoly war between India and China. The book covers a great hidden aspect of the silk trade and makes new eye-opening discoveries about Silk Routes and the lives around it. It was not only for silk but also provided the biggest market for saltpeter, slave trade and opium.

While it highlights the grandiose of silk sarees, it also tells us beautifully about the romanticism of the lives associated with cocoon silk.

It stumbles upon the root cause of the devastation of the European Silk Industry in the 19th century and questions if China had spiked the cocoon silk cocktail with specific infections that kept the European Silk industry in trouble for forty long years. With this, China regained its supremacy in the world trade in silk.

It gives the Indian policymakers good a room to improve and suggests a way forward.