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'Lord Curzon's Notes on Persia' [548v] (1098/1386)
The record is made up of 1 file (692 folios). It was created in c 1880-1891. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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36
Prices in fact ruled very high in Calcutta for a considerable time, falling
towards the end of the year, however, with a rising exchange and a higher range
of freights.
The destination of the jute has been as follows (cwt., ooo’s omitted):
1887-88.
1888-89.
1889-90.
United Kingdom
• 6,313
7>498
7.079
United States
- 2,331
1,682
1,804
Germany
• 351
684
652
France
54
161
233
Italy
. 266
184
223
Austria
. 183
203
110
Spain
. 124
104
113
From the United Kingdom a large proportion of the jute sent thither is
re-exported mostly to the Continent as is the case with Indian cotton.
Manures, Attention was drawn to the increasing dimensions of this trade in reviewing
the trade for 1888-89, in which year 36,371 tons were shipped. Last year the
exports were still larger, amounting to 45,673 tons, mainly bones. It appears
that there has been quite a hunt for bones by export agents in every village
adjacent to a railway line all over Northern India. If the collection has been
exhaustive the trade cannot increase much further, but in the first three months
of the present year we have already exported over 8,500 tons. It is instructive
that, while Indian Agricultural Departments are discussing the uses and merits
and the need of fertilisers, the Indian peasant is quietly selling for export to
foreign parts every fragment of the best fertiliser he can find lying about the soil.
They have been shipped to England, Belgium, Germany, the United States,
Ceylon, and Mauritius, and their value represents a little under 2] million
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
Seeds,
Exports of eight years:
(ooo’s
omitted'}.
Cwt.
Rs. 7
1882-83
• 13.139
72,003
1883-84
• 17.355
100,837
1884-85
• 18,251
107,452
1885-86
. 17,280
99,483
-
1886-87
. 15,866
91,985
1887-88
. 16,060
93,850
1888-89
• 15,570
95,617
1889-90
• 15,795
106,275
As with cotton and jute, so with seeds there was a considerable increase in
values last year.
The trade in the principal kinds of oilseeds was as follows in the last five
years in cwt. (ooo’s omitted) :
1885-86.
1886-87.
1887-88.
1888-89.
1889-90
Castor . . 670
611
764
586
895
Earthnuts . 656
946
1,262
828
1,394
Linseed . 9,510
8,657
8,423
8,461
7,147
Poppy . . 695
613
456
730
483
Rape . . 3,722
2,660
2,081
3,061
3,904
Tilorjinjili . 1,759
2,114
2,747
1,537
1,775
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This file consists of letters, notes, and printed material on Persia compiled by George Curzon in the course of conducting research prior to the writing of his book: Persia and the Persian Question . The papers' contents and type vary considerably, but consists primarily of handwritten notes, some of which are organised roughly for individual chapters of the book. The rest of the file includes newspaper clippings, official reports, printed maps, and other published material on the history and geography of Persia. The official government reports are primarily government of India balance of trade reports, while published material consisted mainly of academic and non-academic papers on Persian archaeology by members of the Scottish Geographical Magazine and the history of the telegraph published by the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
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