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

Mackay, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108060722 ISBN 13 : 9781108060721

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A report of 1853 commissioned by British industrialists about the factors impeding the growth of the cotton industry in India.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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the many impediments to further growth of the Indian cotton trade: the poverty of the cultivators, heavy taxation, outdated planting methods and poor infrastructure, as well as the problem of competition from the booming cotton exports of the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108060722
• ISBN 13: 9781108060721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 490
• Éditeur: Robertson James
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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