Finance and Accounts-Trade, Commercial, Vol. 2: Appendix to the Report From the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the ... and Minutes of Evidence (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0366299026 ISBN 13: 9780366299027

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Finance and Accounts-Trade, Commercial, Vol. 2: Appendix to the Report From the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East-India Company, 16th August 1832, and Minutes of Evidence

The manufacture by them is increasing. They manufacture the article m the same way as Euro 8, but not with so much attention, though with more than they formerly did. The atives pay more regard to cotton than 'to indigo. Many indigo-planters employ Euro ean assistants. I had a'great dislike to employing them, for the natives were always fu y suflicient, and always trustworthy, and'the more confidence therevas placed in them the more deserving they warrant it. The native labourers must be strictly loblred after and kept to their Work. '1 hey do not get through so much work as American slaves. There are from 600 to Europeans engaged as indigo manufacturers. Whose who tales lands for the cultivation of indigo genera reside on them. In some cases the agents in Calcutta have sharesin the factories, but not in all. The factories are nor-ally established by capital not brought from England, but bormwed in Calcutta, at a igh rate of interest, and belonging to natives and to the my houses, and some part of it being the savings of the Com any's servants. The agency ouses have no security unless it be on the buildings; they to e the planter insure his life. The factors may be considered as the ser vants of the Calcutta agents. The indigo planters return home whenever they can. There are many respectable men among them, but not many men of capital. There is no instance known of a man with capital going out to India to establish an indigo plantation.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0366299026
• ISBN 13: 9780366299027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 713