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'Lord Curzon's Notes on Persia' [544v] (1090/1386)
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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Total
• 13,977
28
Coffee.
' As was anticipated in reviewing the trade for 1888-89 the large exports
of that year were not continued, the quantity shipped having fallen materially.
The exports were:
Cwt. Rs. (o0o‘s omitted).
1888-89 . 365,299 18,842
1889-90 • 239,795 14,899
The stimulus given by a continued range of high prices in the European
markets—in great degree speculative—was counteracted by a poor crop. The
prices in London in January and June since 1886 have been in shillings per
Rice not
husk.
cwt. :
January. June.
1886 . 54/6 57/6
1887 . 78/6 ’ 91/0
1888 * . 72/6 72/0
1889 . 89/0 88/6
1890 . 99/0 97/0
in the The trade was much better than in the preceding year, exports from
Burma having greatly increased with large available supplies. From Bengal on
the other hand exports were again smaller than in the previous year, prices, under
the influence of deficient harvests, having reached a level that made trade diffi
cult when prices in Europe did not respond. A glance at the quantities exported
in the last ten years, as given below, shews that this trade does not make much
progress. It is in fact, as has often been remarked before, no longer practically
an Indian monopoly but, rather, subject to very keen competition.
Exports of
Rice {hus
ked) in
cwt. {ooEs
omitted').
v°
Value Rs.
Burma.
Bengal.
Madras.
Bombay.
Sindh.
Total for India.
(000’s omitted)..
1880-81
. 16,730
6,717
2,363
927
32
26,769
89,717
1881-82
. 18,690
7.617
1.549
614
49
28,519
82,496
1882-83
. 21,249
7,838
1,319
552
71
31,029
84,401
1883-84
. 16,994
7,394
1,843
■521
80
26,832
83,289
1884-85
• I3.507
6,035
1,403
677
80
21,702
71,228
1885-86
. 19,084
6,879
1,181
521
149
27,814
91,672
1886-87
, 18,216
5.902
1,564
639
139
26,460
87,648
1887-88
• I7. 8 79
’ 7.996
1,438
764
72
28,149
92,251
1888-89
. 14.205
6,417
i,538
589
19
22,768
78,453
1889-90
. 18,259
5,992
1,654
799
7°
26,774
100,473
From Siam and Cochin-China alone the exports of rice are not much less
than half those -of all India. Then there is the rice from Japan and Italy, and
we must also reckon with the competition of other grains which compete with
Indian rice for distillation.
The countries to which Indian rice was exported last year are these :
Cwt. (o0o‘s omitted).
Europe:
United Kingdom
•
5,177
Malta
•
953
France
•
207
Egypt .
7,398
Germany .
•
176
Other countries
66
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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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