There were many big fat Indian weddings the past year, but Vasai's Shridatta Raut has found a 40-ft wedding bill from 1849 that can put even the grandest ones to shame.

The 40-foot-bill - about as long as seven adults stacked one on top of the other - would have been eye-popping in the 1800s. Written in Modi lipi (precursor to the modern Marathi script), the handmade scroll goes into painstaking details of each and every expense during the 10-day festivities, adding up to a princely sum of R1,811. This might seem humble by modern standards, but would amount to crores today, easily comparable to the lavish weddings of industrialists and Bollywood stars in recent times.