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INDIA. 



JOOO was 902,781,650 rupees, showing an increase 

 of 6.99 per cent, over the previous year. The 

 total value of exports was 1,170,397,092 rupees, 

 a decline of 2.04 per cent, from the value for the 

 previous year, which showed an increase of 14.73 

 per cent, over the exports for 1898, which were the 

 lowest in amount for many years owing to famine 

 and plague, having fallen 3.8C per cent, below the 

 figure for 1897, which from the same causes was 

 8.10 per cent, lower than the total for 189(5. In 

 the total value of imports for the year ending 

 March 31, 1900. merchandise amounted to 753,- 

 044,805 rupees and treasure to -209,730,851 rupees, 

 while exports of merchandise were 1,090,833,216 

 rupees and exports of treasure 79,503,870 rupees. 

 Excluding Government stores and Government 

 treasure, the imports were 707,118,034 rupees of 

 merchandise and 209.585,132 rupees of treasure; 

 total, 910.703.7(56 rupees: and the exports Avere 

 1,089.701.873 rupees of merchandise and 79,500,- 

 405 rupees of treasure. Of the exports of mer- 

 chandise 1.050,83(5,900 rupees were products of 

 India and 32.924,912 rupees were reexports of 

 foreign merchandise. Of the total imports on 

 private account, including treasure, 353,044,924 

 rupees were imported into Bengal, 49,193,964 into 

 Burma, 60,822,072 rupees into Madras, 409,153,249 

 rupees into Bombay, and 43,888,956 rupees into 

 ISind, and of the exports, excluding Government 

 stores and treasure, 506,593,287 rupees in value, 

 went out of Bengal, 101,879,290 rupees out of 

 Burma, 120,621,320 rupees out of Madras, 370,191,- 

 (505 rupees out of Bombay, and 63,676,778 rupees 

 out of Sind. Of the total imports of bullion'- and 

 specie on private and Government account 114,- 

 487,959 rupees were gold and 95,248,892 rupees 

 silver, and of the total exports of treasure 20,- 

 081.962 rupees were gold and 59,481,914 rupees 

 silver. Among the imports of merchandise in 

 1900 the value of live animals was 3,034,933 ru- 

 pees, and among the exports 2,007,156 rupees; 

 imports of articles of food and drink were 92,367,- 

 801 rupees, and exports 303,778,416 rupees; im- 

 ports of hardware and cutlery were 15,902,921 

 rupees, and exports 167,431 rupees; imports of 

 metals were 25,419,034 rupees, and exports 1,869,- 

 083 rupees; imports of machinery were 25,419,034 

 rupees, and exports 3,723 rupees; imports of rail- 

 road materials were 27,770,780 rupees, and ex- 

 ports 101,433 rupees; imports of drugs and chem- 

 icals were 19,314,865 rupees, and exports 123,620,- 

 111 rupees; imports of oils were 19,314,865 rupees, 

 and exports 123,620,111 rupees; imports of raw 

 materials for manufactures were 36,895,579 ru- 

 pees, and exports 408,855,807 rupees; imports of 

 yarns and textile fabrics were 325,803,874 rupees, 

 and exports 149,250,156 rupees; imports of apparel 

 were 14,643,066 rupees, and exports 1,597,207 ru- 

 pees; imports of all other articles were 64,896,509 

 rupees, and exports 56,899,957 rupees. Of cotton 

 manufactures the value of 294,521,259 rupees was 

 imported; cf metals, hardware, and cutlery, 62,- 

 710,471 rupees; of oil, 34,261,722 rupees; of sugar, 

 raw and refined, 33,766,299 rupees; of railroad ma- 

 terial and rolling-stock, 27,770,780 rupees; of ma- 

 chinery, 25,419,034 rupees; of woolen goods, 17,- 

 580.018 rupees; of silk, raw and manufactured, 

 17,059,193 rupees; of provisions, 16,882,483 ru- 

 pees; of liquors, 15,974,773 rupees; of clothing, ex- 

 clusive of hosiery, 14,643,066 rupees; of chemicals 

 and drugs, 12,881,273 rupees; of spices, 9,165,229 

 rupees; of coal, 8,102,136 rupees; of glass, 7,666,- 

 515 rupees; of grain and pulse, 7,269.930 rupees; 

 of dyes and tanning substances, 6,433,592 rupees; 

 of salt, 6,119,955 rupees; of paper, 4,113,201 ru- 

 pees; of umbrellas, 2,730,307 rupees. The exports 

 of rice were 130,970,471 rupees in value; of hides 



and skins, 104,628,753 rupees; of oil-seeds and 

 other seeds, 100,995,284 rupees; of raw cotton, 99,- 

 250,646 rupees; of tea, 90,921,120 rupees; of cot- 

 ton manufactures, 82,741,246 rupees; of opium, 

 82,037,148 rupees; of raw jute, 80,716,465 rupees; 

 of jute manufactures, 62,643,495 rupees; of wheat, 

 39.094,963 rupees; of indigo, 26,925,107 rupees; of 

 coffee, 14,847,146 rupees; of wool, 13,563,745 ru- 

 pees; of gum lac, 11,366,597 rupees; of timber 

 and wood, 10,869,202 rupees; of oils, 8,686,481 ru- 

 pees; of raw silk and cocoons, 6,986,106 rupees; 

 of provisions, 6,170,586 rupees; of spices, 5,482,956 

 rupees; of saltpeter, 3,842,933 rupees; of sugar, 

 raw and refined, 3,374,305 rupees; of woolen 

 manufactures, 2,532,550 rupees; of silk manufac- 

 tures, 1,289,018 rupees. Of the exports of rice the 

 value of 77,334,186 rupees came from Burma, 41,- 

 553,510 rupees from Bengal, and 12,082,775 rupees 

 from Madras, Sind, and Bombay together. Ben- 

 gal furnished 51,553,555 rupees' worth of opium, 

 arid Bombay 30,483,593 rupees. Of the wheat 20,- 

 629,634 rupees in value came from Sind, 8,786,208 

 rupees from Bengal, and 9,679,110 rupees from 

 Bombay. Of the indigo the value of 16,350,979 

 rupees came from Bengal, 8,756,048 rupees from 

 Madras, and the rest from Bombay and Sind. 

 Of cotton the value of 68,593,628 rupees was 

 grown in Bombay, 14,088,908 rupees in Madras, 

 9,415,883 rupees in Sind, 5,051,459 rupees in Ben- 

 gal, and 2,100,768 rupees in Burma. Bombay 

 raised 46,325,596 rupees' worth of seeds, Bengal 

 40,423,177 rupees, Sind 10,343,228 rupees, and 

 Madras and Burma the rest. The imports from 

 and the exports of Indian products to the prin- 

 cipal countries in the year ending March 31, 1900, 

 were of the following values in rupees: 



The foreign trade of Calcutta in 1900 amounted 

 to 792,396,572 rupees, that of Bombay to 564,688,- 

 280 rupees, that of Rangoon to 121,767,575 rupees, 

 that of Karachi to 105,504,708 rupees, that of 

 Madras to 96,534,803 rupees, and the port of Tuti- 

 corin had a trade of 20.440,157 rupees. Of the 

 total value of merchandise imports 600,744,738 

 rupees came through the Suez Canal, and- of the 

 exports 652,643,770 rupees went by that route. 

 The coasting-trade in 1900, exclusive of Govern- 

 ment stores and treasure, amounted to 809,399,247 

 rupees. The imports of merchandise by the land 

 frontiers in 1900 amounted -to 61,631,387 rupees in 

 value, and the exports to 51,068,299 rupees. Of 

 the imports 21,739,223 rupees came from Nepal, 

 10,837,984 rupees from Kashmir, 6,488,729 rupees 

 from the Shan States, 4,798,405 rupees from Ba- 

 jaur, 4,324,772 rupees from Kandahar, 2,594,207 

 rupees from Karenni, 1,870,547 rupees from Cabul, 

 1,618,416 rupees from Tibet, 1,671.089 rupees from 

 Zimme, 1,132,836 rupees from western China, 814,- 



