Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a handkerchief made of Indian (Asian) cotton.

1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
c.1800		‘Tom the Drover’ No. 30 Papers of Francis Place (1819) n.p.: She pads the hoof up and down, and with a beaver castor she goes, / With an India man about her squeeze.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.