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Western India - Reports addressed to the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Glasgow (Paperback)
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Western India - Reports addressed to the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Glasgow (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
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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outdated planting methods and poor infrastructure, as well as the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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