SPIRITS 



IMPORTED WINES AND SPIRITS Tr*u- 



Materials Used to Aid the formation of AUuhnl or it, I labour or 

 Strengthen the Beverage*. 



Acacia leucophloea. DintillcnT Hiirk (\- 



Cannabls *ativa, Imlimi H.-IMJ. (pp. 258-flS). 



"Cerevisla Fermentum." Yeast. D.K.I- . ^ . 257-40; Me Halt Liquor* rMt 

 (p. 758). The special preparation used in Bengal known by the name of bokJtor 

 (Hay, /.'. 130, 133) contains a tiiiMtaao enzyme that poMeesM the power of 

 converting' Hturch into doxtrinn un.l nmluies. but Ray add* the caking of the rice 

 is as essential as the addition of bakhnr l,ut no caking take* place wit 

 bnkhar. 



Datura. (p. 488). 



Humulus Lupulus. See Malt Liquors Hops (p. 759). 



LiguBtrum RoxburghIL The bark put into th- ... ., ../., , Hadraa, 



Phyllanthua Emblica, The fruit put int.. Native spirit* (p. H87). 



Sorghum vulgore. Root added to increaee the poi*onou* property of the 

 liquor (see p. 1040). 



StrycbnoB Nux-vomica, The seed* added to beverage* to make them intoxi- 

 cating (p. 1052). 



Terminalia belerica and Chebula. The fruit used to increaee the potency of 

 spirits (p. 1073). 



Vateria Indica, Linn, (see pp. 1105-6). 



TRADE. Production. No sort of tabular statement can be furnished Trade. 

 that could make any pretensions to completeness in the exemplifn -at ion 

 of the production and consumption of intoxicating liquors in India. 

 We know that there were 14 registered distilleries in all India during 

 1901 and that these employed 520 persons, each having at least 26 

 employees. But there were many smaller distilleries, each employing 

 on an average fewer than the number of persons that justify registration. 

 In 1902 and 1903 the registered distilleries were only 9, and in 1904 IUCMOT* 

 only 8, so that there would appear to have been some curtailment. 



The quantities of spirits issued from the regularly constituted and Produc- 

 registered distilleries is of course ascertainable, but not the amount of other tion. 

 intoxicating liquors issued by the smaller concerns, nor the production 

 that is either authorised or not but which, nevertheless, takes place domesti- 

 cally. In 1903-4 the spirits issued from the distilleries came to 8,439,167 

 gallons; in 1904-5 to 8,744,302 gallons; and in 1905-6 to 9,288,013 

 gallons (Rev. Trade Ind., 1905-6, 8). 



Foreign Imports. To contrast with these figures of regular production Imports, 

 of spirits, the following particulars regarding the imports from foreign 

 countries of supply may be given : The returns of foreign trade show that 

 the imports of spirits into India have been steadily increasing. The 

 following are the quantities of imported SPIRITS of all sorts during the six 

 years 1901 to 1907 : 1901-2, 1,275,525 gallons, valued at Rs. 88,69,374 ; 

 1902-3, 1,380,953 gallons, valued at Rs. 95,18,881 ; 1903-4, 1,409,831 

 gallons, valued at Rs. 99,15,068 ; 1904-5, 1,444,207 gallons, valued at 

 Rs. 1,00,59,285 ; 1905-6, 1,620,492 gallons, valued at Rs. 1,08,78,491 ; 

 and in 1906-7, 1,489,361 gallons, valued at Rs. 98,69,497. Taking the figure 

 for 1906-7, we find the total was made up thus : BRANDY, 333,957 gallons, n i*^*^ 

 valued at Rs. 27,49,931; GIN, 68,575 gallons, valued at Rs. 2,63,877; LIQUEUR, 

 12,262 gallons, valued at Rs. 1,53,953 ; RUM, 66,579 gallons, valued at 

 Rs. 1,09,245 ; WHISKY, 592,514 gallons, valued at Rs. 37,78,813; SPIRIT used 

 in DRUGS, etc., 86,891 gallons, valued at Rs.15,73,906; SPIRIT PERFUMED, 

 16,351 gallons, valued at Rs. 6,23,266 ; METHYLATED SPIRIT, 181,369 gallons, 

 valued atRs. 2,72,998; OTHER SORTS, 130,863 gallons, valued atRs. 3,43,608. 

 The shares of the chief countries in the total for 1906-7 were : United oooakta oi 

 Kingdom, 766,686 gallons ; Prance, 256,472 gallons ; Germany, 193,576 8 



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