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Once the British had consolidated their hold over India, they set up a variety of food industries all over the country. This book provides, for the first time, a detailed survey of the major food industries on which the empire subsisted.

It starts with the salt industry of Bengal, which was a source of revenue that had been under zamindari control. Fluctuations in policy, which were designed to bring about a measure of control and improve salt quality, make for fascinating reading, ending ironically enough in the termination of salt production in Bengal as uneconomic compared to its recovery from sources elsewhere in the country.

Sugar production again represented a very ancient activity in India, and early British intervention along the Gangetic valley lay in the direction of upgrading indigenous products into white crystal sugar.

Other chapters discuss alcoholic products, such as spirits and beer; dairy products; fish curing; meat and egg production; cereal processing; oilseed industries; and, finally, industries which had no indigenous history and were the result of innovative enterprise, like tea, coffee, bread and biscuits, and soft drinks.

The final chapter reviews transport, managing agencies, tariffs and the two World Wars, and controversial issues like the drain of wealth, capital formation, and state participation in industry.

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The food industries of British India
1994, Oxford University Press
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The food industries of British India
1994, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.476640954
Library of Congress
HD9016.I4A338 1994, HD9016.I4 A338 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 316 p. :
Number of pages
316

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Open Library
OL22193174M
Internet Archive
foodindustriesof0000acha
ISBN 10
0195634187
LCCN
95018918, 95900460, gb95018918
OCLC/WorldCat
33403614
Library Thing
2472960
Goodreads
3021555

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