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Paan once symbolised courtly status in India. Then it became an unsanitary, ‘native’ habit
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Paan once symbolised courtly status in India. Then it became an unsanitary, ‘native’ habit

Paintings and texts show that European travellers in the 18th-19th centuries were curious about the practice, accepting it as part of socialising.

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