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SUMMARY:CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial pr
 eference and sugar business in Bihar\, 1800-1850s - Karolina Hutkova (Lond
 on School of Economics)
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DESCRIPTION:European sugar entrepreneurs in Bihar adopting West Indian sug
 ar technologies in the 1830s-40s faced a lack of irrigation technologies\,
  a lack of internal transport networks\, and low yielding sugar cane varie
 ties. When Britain equalised duties on slave and non-slave sugar\, London 
 prices fell and Indian sugar producers went bankrupt. Sugar was among the 
 chief Indian exports and a major source of foreign exchange. This policy c
 hange betrays inconsistency in British imperial policies towards overseas 
 colonies and a lack of consideration of colonial manufacturing.
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 12
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