Molasses
- British colonial
An 1872 book says molasses was one of the goods river boats brought down the Mahanadi from Sambalpur to the coast. Boats swapped it for salt and other goods carried the other way.
Sticky molasses travelled down the Mahanadi river, swapped for salt going the other way.
An 1872 book says molasses was one of the goods carried down the Mahanadi river from Sambalpur to the coast. Boats swapped it there for salt and other goods going the other way. [Hunter, 1872, vol. II Appendix III, p. 74]
For scholars
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. The passage describes river and inland trade only. No source here says molasses reached the sea or left India. [Hunter, 1872, vol. II Appendix III, p. 74]
Facts
- Category
- Foodstuff
- Direction
- Exported from Kalinga
Scholar notes
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. The passage describes river and inland trade only; no source says molasses reached the sea or left India.
- William Wilson Hunter. *Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province under Native and British Rule*. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1872. public domain , vol. II Appendix III, p. 74 (Mahanadi river towns carry salt and other goods up to Sambalpur, 'bringing thence, in exchange, cotton, wheat, oil-seeds, clarified butter, oil, molasses, iron, turmeric, tasar cloth, rice'.)