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Sakhawat Hussain Khan

Sakhawat Hussain Khan

Sakhawat Hussain Khan (b. n.d.; d. n.d.) was an Indian textile craftsman who specialised in creating authentic Balaposh quilts. He was a descendant of Atir Khan, who began the family craft of making these quilts for the Nawabs of Bengal in the eighteenth century. Hussain Khan was the sole master craftsman of the quilt in Murshidabad, West Bengal.

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