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to obtain a holding in the Indian market, it may be added that not 
Bombay alone, but all the provinces of India now import foreign sugar. 
The effect has been disastrous on the Indian refining industry, and 
hence imported sugar may be said to be rapidly taking the place of 
Indian refined sugar. The exports of raw sugar (cane and palm) from 
India in 1892-93 were of the value of nearly 5,000,000 rupees 
TEa. 
In 1788 Sir Joseph Banks suggested to the Court of Directors of the 
East India Bees rd that the effort should be made to cultivate tea in 
India. Lor illiam Bentinck, on the eve of his departure for India, 
accordingly uto - pE p that he should give the € his 
careful consideration. Some eight years previous to Sir Joseph Banks’ 
suggestion, Colonel Kyd had actualy raised China tea in the Botanic 
Calcutta. “Lord Bentinck, on his arrival in India, lost no 
time, however, in taking action. ‘A tea amts was founded, with 
Dr. Wallich as secretary. In addressing his council on the 24th of 
January 1834, His Excellency made it clear that he was to leave nothing 
unturned that might help to attain the object aimed at,—viz., the 
me dA ede of the best Chinese plants. The tea committee do not 
to have informed Lord Bentinck that Major Bruce (about 1821) 
and subsequently 1 Mr. Scott (in 1824) had found the tea wild in 
Assam. Much expense and considerable delay was accordingly incurred 
in sending severed esa scans to China to procure Chinamen and tea-seed, 
but while a comm was actually in China (on behalf of the tea 
committee) Captains Charlton and Jenkins re-discovered the wild Assam 
lant. 
It is perhaps needless to traverse the somewhat beaten path of the 
subsequent historic eons the repeated failures but ultimate successful 
establishment of the industry in India. One point may, however 
the indigenous plant was far superior to the aeclimatised. 
gon Persp | sali (ore Wa pag sale) of Indian tea was made 
iv tha Coa market on the 25th May 184 
The tal i area pe tea in India i is 334,845 acres. The exports in 
1891-92 from India were 120,000,000 pounds. 
At the present day it may be said that Ceylon is now a more formid- 
able rival to India than China. In 1885-86, Ceylon exported not quite 
8,000,000 pounds of tea. In 1891-92, Ceylon had increased its exports 
to nearly 68,000,000 pounds. 
COFFEE. 
which he nm their people, agriculture, and industries, makes no 
mention of co in India.  Tavernier, who journeyed in India in 
1665—69, gives a fall account of the coffee plantations he visited, 
Wallich in his evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Com- 
mons, stated that he never drank EM. AES than that produced in the 
Company's garden at Calcutta. Near the Bauria Cotton Mills, a little 
[meam aleutta, may still be seen is of the original coffee plante 
