Cotton: proceedings of the American cotton planters on the Government experimental cotton farms in Coimbatore (including List of Stores received for the use of the American Cotton Planters for January to March 1842, and plans of a Gin House in Broach, pp.103-113)
Table of Contents. [p 1] Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, No.49 of 1852, dated Fort William 17th September 1852, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, transmitting a copy of a communication received from the Government of the North Western Provinces, reporti...
Circulars on the cultivation of cotton and senna are sent by Dr Robert Wight to the Collectors of the Madras Presidency (printed copies of the circulars, dated 15 Apr 1837 and 22 May 1837, are to be found on pp 7-23) - correspondence between Wight and the Madras Chamber of Commerce
Proposals by Government of Bombay to encourage the better manufacture of sugar by native cultivators in Bombay Presidency, in view of crop’s importance for export and the successful introduction of Mauritian sugar cane to the country. Tale of contents. Documents include: [f. 7–15] from Territori...
[pp 1-2] Extract from Revenue letter from Fort St George, dated 4th July 1828, regarding the spice gardens of the Tinnevelly District, and information relative to the cultivation of nutmegs and the preparation of them for the European market. [pp 3-14] Report by J Monro, Collector of Tinnevell...
Paper by Dr John Forbes Royle on the advantages and practicability of cultivating hemp [cannabis sativa] in India with a view to the supply of that article to meet the large demand existing in Great Britain: importance to British Naval and Merchant shipping of hemp in the manufacture of ropes an...
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Foreign Department of the North Western Provinces between June 1846 and February 1847 regarding the attempt by Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, to dispossess Khoosroo Zemanee Begum [Khushru uz-Zamani Begum], the widow of his late brother Prince Saleem [Shahzada M...
Table of Contents. [p 1] Extract from a General letter from the Government of Bengal to the Court of Directors in the General Department (No.26 of 1854), dated 23rd May 1854, regarding the Government resolution that the gratuitous distribution of plants from the Company's Botanic Garden should...