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Research Paper | History | India | Volume 8 Issue 12, December 2019

Forest Products and its Importance in 19th Century (With special Reference to Colonial India)

Ravi Anuradha

Abstract: After the colonial intervention, the colonial government encouraged the British iron-making industries and gave out some exclusive privileges during the early nineteenth century. Since the early nineteenth century, the colonial government emphasised the extraction of iron ore. In 1824, Thomas Munro observed that `… the richness of the ores of Salem and other districts have been known above thirty years, without anything having been done to extend their produce, and he suggested that the State has to extend the support for extracting the resources’

Keywords: wood, sandal wood, timber, oil, teak, coffee, tea

Edition: Volume 8 Issue 12, December 2019,

Pages: 1551 - 1556

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