Imperial Gazetteer of India ..., Volume 3

James Sutherland Cotton, Sir Richard Burn, Sir William Stevenson Meyer

Clarendon Press, 1907 - Great Britain

1 Famine during the administration of the East India	1

Classification of areas in the principal Pro	4

Jute	5

Tillage implements I I	11

GENERAL PLAN	17

Intermittent cultivation in virgin soils	24

Areas of production	29

Millets	32

Manufactured goods	281

Raw jute	287

Trade with United Kingdom	293

Countries with which trade is carried on	299

Value of imports and exports of merchandise	307

Exports Indian merchandise 281	310

Irrigation and Navigation 316364	316

Storage works	322

Sugarcane	39

Deterioration of Indian cotton	44

Transplantation	50

Coffee	63

Imports into British Provinces and Native	72

Vegetables	75

Montgomery cattle	81

Agriculture IIOI	97

Number of livestock and of ploughs	101

Protection from fire	113

Yield of the forests	119

Typical tribes	125

Mines and Minerals 128167	128

Coal	131

100	137

Copper	144

Titanium and molybdenum	148

Areas of production	153

Materials used for agriculture chemical industries and food	155

Labour	163

VIII	167

The communities concerned in Indian arts and manu	169

Trade	176

Trade in animal and vegetable oils and fats	177

Safflower	183

Hides skins leather and manufactures	189

Feathers	193

Papermaking	206

Wool and pashm	212

Trade in drugs	223

Indian timbers	226

Kashmir papier mâché	232

Large industries	250

Arts and Manufactures 168256	256

CHAPTER V	257

Pepper	258

Cost of transit to Europe	262

General progress since 1834	268

Karachi	274

Effects of a small market	280

Attempts to construct large irrigation works by private	328

Punjab inundation canals	334

Minor works in Madras	339

Total area irrigated in British India from all sources	345

Average charges for irrigation	351

Navigation in the United Provinces	357

Bibliography	364

Railways and Roads 365417	365

Introduction of rebate terms in 1893	371

Control by Government	377

Character of construction	383

Roads in preBritish times and to the end of the eighteenth	402

Present classification of roads	408

General results of working	411

Posts and Telegraphs 418446	418

Postal arrangements in Native States	424

carts 19034	429

Delivery of correspondence	430

Life insurance	436

CHAPTER II	440

Inland tariffs	442

Rents Prices and Wages 447474	447

Rent statistics	453

Introduction	456

Prices of 188190	459

Linseed jute tea indigo and cotton	465

The official returns	466

Appendix	472

Famine 475502	475

Modern relief policy	478

Protection against Famine	495

Chronological list of famines and scarcities	501

Index 503520	503

Improved communications and greater knowledge	508

Natural classes of forests	509

Proportion of the population engaged in agriculture I	511

Embossed envelopes and postcards 424	514

Areas of heavy and light rainfall 5	517

Early commerce	518

Title	Imperial Gazetteer of India ..., Volume 3 Imperial Gazetteer of India, Great Britain. India Office
Editors	James Sutherland Cotton, Sir Richard Burn, Sir William Stevenson Meyer
Contributors	Sir William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain. India Office
Publisher	Clarendon Press, 1907
Original from	the University of Virginia
Digitized	28 May 2009

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