Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct?

Statement 1: Muslin is a type of cotton textile which had its origin in Bengal of pre-independence period.

Statement 2: Muslin was also called as 'malmal'.

Only Statement 1 is correct.

Muslin is a type of cotton textile which had its origin in Bengal, particularly, places in and around Dhaka (spelled during the pre-independence period as Dacca), now the capital city of Bangladesh. ‘Daccai Muslin’ had gained worldwide fame as an exquisite type of cotton textile. The finest variety of muslin was called malmal. Sometimes, foreign travellers also used to refer to it as malmal shahi or malmal khas implying that it was worn by, or fit for, the royalty.