India revenue letter : dated 15th March, 1839 (no. 4).

  • Auckland, George Eden, Earl of, 1784-1849.
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[1840]
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Credit: India revenue letter : dated 15th March, 1839 (no. 4). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    MINUTE BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA. Simla, August 14, 1839. I HAVE retained this dispatch for some time, in order that I might examine with attention the information which has been published from different quarters, on the result of past proceedings in regard to the highly important subject to which it relates. All the value of success in introducing in India a better produce of Cotton, suited for the immense manufactures of England, is fully appreciated by me; and it is fitting that, renewed and special exertions being again directed to the prosecution of this national object, our measures in furtherance of them should be well considered, and be as complete and effectual as circum- stances will admit. We are simultaneously labouring, with fair hopes, to secure the establishment of a profitable tea culture in India: and it will be one fortunate consequence of the state of our Chinese relations, if, in respect to the production for the European market of two such valuable articles as tea and cotton, it should give, as seems probable, an active stimulus to the agriculture and commerce of this country. In no other channel can the capital and enterprise, which have at Bombay been heretofore employed on the trade in opium, be now turned with better prospect of advantage, than to the amelioration of the cotton produce of that Presidency, which already commands some partial sale among the English manufacturers, and affords a very promising en- couragement to further persevering experiment. 2. The authorities which I have consulted on the subject are named in the margin=*=, and they appear to supply full and accurate information • For India generally.— Reports on the Culture and Manufacture of Cotton Wool, Raw Silk, and Indigo, in India.”—Printed by the East India Company,