Supplying ‘Juteopolis’: Dundee and Bengal Jute, c.1850-1914. Commodities of Empire Working Paper No. 31
Journal: ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam)
Year: 2020

Raw jute became a major item in international commodity trade in the decades after 1850, a significant part of the general internationalisation of the Indian economy. Expansion was driven by the extraordinarily rapid growth of general global trade in commodities, many of which were carried in jute sacks and bagging. In this period the great bulk of the world’s jute was grown in East Bengal, from where it was used by the age-old domestic handicraft industry scattered mainly across Bengal or by th