Western India : Reports addressed to the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Glasgow

Name: Western India
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108060721
Price: 8400 KES
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ISBN: 9781108060721

by Alexander Mackay

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History

ISBN-10 1108060722

ISBN-13 9781108060721

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 2nd, 2011

Print length 490 Pages

Weight 694 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 14.30 x 3.20 cms

Product Classification: Asian history Economic history Asian history Agriculture & farming Agriculture and farming

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Western India, published in 1853, a year after the author's death during his return from India, examines the cotton industry in the region around Gujarat. Alexander Mackay (1808–1852) was commissioned by British industrialists to find out what obstacles were impeding a rise in output and export of the crop.

Scottish-born Alexander Mackay (1808–1852) spent most of his career as a journalist in Canada and the United States, though he had been called to the bar in 1847. In 1851 he was commissioned by the chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn, and Glasgow to go to India and report on the cultivation of cotton there, especially around Gujarat. He stayed for a year and was on his way back to Britain – his return forced by ill health – when he died at sea in 1852. His Western India, however, was published the following year after it was revised by James Robertson. The book highlights the many impediments to further growth of the Indian cotton trade: the poverty of the cultivators, heavy taxation, outdated planting methods and poor infrastructure, as well as the problem of competition from the booming cotton exports of the United States.

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