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Papers on trade.
Catalogue reference: IOR/H/210
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- IOR/H/210
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Title (The name of the record)
- Papers on trade.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1791-1808
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Description (What the record is about)
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(1) pp. 1-10, Letter from Alexander Lockhart McConochie 8th Oct. 1794 asking Court's decision on his plan for improving the Timber Trade of Malabar; pp. 13-106, William Taylor Money to Bombay Council 19th Feb. 1808, with Estimates. Report on the Survey (by Capt Watson) of the Malabar Forests. (2) pp. 111-33, Papers relative to the Silk Trade, including, pp. 115-20, Lord Walsingham (Original) to Henry Dundas 21st March 1785 with proposed letter to Directors and Memoir by John Prinsep on Bengal Thrown Silk, 12th June 1794. (3) pp. 135-8, [John] Prinsep's Memorandum on the Causes of a probable deficiency in the Company's Revenue with proposed remedies. (4) pp. 141-84, Papers relative to the Cultivation of Sugar; pp. 149-84, Dr. William Roxburgh's Account of the Hindu Method of cultivating the Sugar Cane and manufacturing Sugar and Jagri in the Rajahmundry Circar 20th June 1792. (5) pp. 185-213, Papers relative to the Introduction of the cultivation of Sugar and Indigo in Salsette by Helenus Scott, Robert Stewart and John Twiss 1791-92. (6) pp. 215-43, Report by the Committee of Warehouses 17th Jan. 1798 on the Spice Trade, with, pp. 245-65, A History of the Spice Trade from the year 1013 A.D. to 1797 (about 4,000 words); pp. 265-74, Statements of the Trade.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- B21
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume
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Unrestricted
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/d8e4818e-ab7b-4ff1-9c8e-8af85d2ec8c0/
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IOR/H/93-190
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Papers on trade.