STUDIES IN GUJARAT COTTONS, PART I, 
BY 
MAGANLAL L. PATEL, B.Ac., 
Cotton Supervisor, Gujarat. 
[ Received for publication on the 3rd September, 1920. ] 
I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 
Gugarat forms perhaps the most famous centre for Indian cotton 
growing. It has been renowned almost from the beginning of the Indian 
cotton trade, and so long ago as 1790, the annual production of Gujarat, 
including Bhavnagar, was 33,712,000 lb. or over 42,000 bales of our present 
measure, of which 26,656,000 lb. or over 33,000 bales were exported. 
Since that time the cultivation and production of cotton have extended, and 
Gujarat has become the home of two of the best known commercial types of 
Indian cotton, the ‘‘ Broach” and the ‘‘ Dhollera,” and although, as we 
shall show, the cotton corresponding to these terms has varied very 
frequently and very largely, yet these names have for several generations 
indicated some of the best types of cotton that India has been able to 
produce. it is not, however, our intention in the present place to give a 
description of the history of Gujarat cottons and the types of plant which 
have produced them at different periods, but it will be necessary to review 
what is at present known of the varieties of cotton grown in different parts 
of the area, in order to make our studies of the individual types inteiligible 
and clear. 
The cottons grown in Gujarat at the present time belong to three 
different species: Gossypium herbaceum, which is by far the most 
extensively grown and which may be considered to give its character to 
the area, Gossypium neglectum, probably a recent introduction, grown to a 
considerable extent only in one corner of the area, and Gossypium 
obtusifolium, a perennial cotton grown sporadically over a large area of 
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