CHAPTER X. 
Internal Trade of India. 
The distribution of lac cultivation in India has already been 
described in detail. It is not often real- 
Stick-lac Markets. , ...... 
ised how scattered cultivation is ; how 
wide the total area ; and in some cases how scanty and difficult 
are means of communications. A very high proportion of the 
whole area consists of jungle tracts from which the cultivators bring 
the stick-lac often long distances byroad or river to the nearest bazaar, 
which is not itself necessarily situated on or even close to a railway. 
The following is a list of the principal stick-lac markets of India 
with an estimate of the crops arranged as Kusmi, Jethwi, Baisakhi 
and Katki. The names of the districts are those in which the mar¬ 
kets are situated, and not necessarily those in which the lac is grown. 
Thus Imamganj is situated in Gaya district, but much of the Imam- 
ganj lac comes from Palamau and Hazaribagh districts; Jhalda is in 
Manbhum district, but perhaps one-half of the Jhalda lac is grown in 
Ranchi and Hazaribagh districts. The estimates are very rough and 
can have no pretensions to accuracy. They do not represent bumper 
crops but merely crops secured during good average years:— 
Crops in maunds. 
Province. 
District. 
Market. 
Kusmi. 
Jethwi. 
Baisakhi. 
Katki. 
Total. 
Bihar and 
Manbhum 
Balarampur ... 
12,000 
5.000 
25,000 
10,000 
52,000 
Orissa. 
16,000 
Jhalda 
25,000 
8,coo 
45,000 
94,000 
Chas 
10,000 
5,000 
15,000 
Manbazar 
... 
20,000 
6,000 
26,060 
Katras 
... 
2,000 
1,000 
3,000 
Gobindpur 
... 
... 
2,000 
1,000 
3,000 
Ranchi . 
Ranchi 
Bundu 
Lohardaga 
> 
► 20,000 
10,000 
35,000 
20,000 
85,000 
Khunti 
Managhatta ... 
> 
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