Oilseeds and vegetable oil
- British colonial
River boats carried oil-seeds and oil down the Mahanadi from Sambalpur to the Odisha coast. An 1872 book also lists oil-seeds among the everyday goods traded by the inland Tributary States.
Boats loaded with oil-seeds and oil floated down the Mahanadi towards the coast.
River boats carried oil-seeds and oil down the Mahanadi river. They went from Sambalpur to the Odisha coast. [Hunter, 1872, vol. II Appendix III, p. 74]
An 1872 book lists oil-seeds too. It names them as everyday goods. Inland areas called the Tributary States traded them. Historians think oil-seeds were a normal trade good there. [Hunter, 1872, vol. II, p. 102]
For scholars
Both references come from the same book, by Hunter. So only one source supports this entry. That keeps the tier at Probable. Neither passage says the oil-seeds left India. Both describe river and inland trade only. [Hunter, 1872, vol. II Appendix III, p. 74; Hunter, 1872, vol. II, p. 102]
Facts
- Category
- Other
- Direction
- Exported from Kalinga
Scholar notes
Both references are from the same book (Hunter 1872), so only one distinct source supports this entry and the tier stops at Probable. Neither passage says the oil-seeds or oil left India; both describe river and inland trade only.
- 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 goods up to Sambalpur, 'bringing thence, in exchange, cotton, wheat, oil-seeds, clarified butter, oil, molasses, iron, turmeric, tasar cloth, rice'.)
- 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, p. 102 ('The trade of the Tributary States consists of rice, sugar-cane, oil seeds, clarified butter, cotton, coarse cereals, timber, lac, turmeric, beeswax, and other jungle products.')