Empire, industry and class: the imperial nexus of jute, 1840-1940 - By Anthony Cox
From the 1840s onwards, as the commercial success of jute as a packing medium grew, the fortunes of the city of Dundee, the British centre of jute manufacturing, became intertwined with that of one of Britain’s central Indian possession, Bengal. While jute cultivation, and hand manufacture was conce...
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University of Edinburgh Library
2014-05-01
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| Series: | The South Asianist |
| Online Access: | http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/729 |