INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cotton, silk, saltpetre and opium were the staple ‘commodities of export’ by the ‘English East India Company’ from ‘Bengal’ in the middle of the eighteenth century.

Detailed explanation-2: -The principal exports in the coastal and overseas traffic of Bengal were a range of manufactured goods and agricultural products-textiles, rice, wheat, gram, sugar, opium, clarified butter, and saltpeter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Originally chartered as the “Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world’s trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium.

Detailed explanation-4: -What were the main items of export from India in the eighteenth century ? ANS : cotton and Silk fabrics, spices, Indigo, sugar, drugs and precious stones the main items of export from India in the 18th century.