Tobacco

Probable Scholars say

British colonial

An 1825 British survey says good tobacco was brought into Cuttack from nearby districts of Bengal. It arrived together with cloth and silk as a luxury good.

Good tobacco travelled into Cuttack from Bengal, alongside cloth and silk.

An 1825 British survey says good tobacco came into Cuttack. It came from nearby districts of Bengal. It arrived with cloth and silk, as a luxury good. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]

For scholars

Only one source records this import. It gives no quantity. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]

Facts

Category: Other
Direction: Imported into Kalinga

Scholar notes

Only one source documents this import, and no quantity is given.

Andrew Stirling. *An Account, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of Orissa Proper or Cuttack*. in Asiatic Researches 15. 1825. public domain , p. 194 ('Piece goods, silk, good tobacco, and every thing in the shape of a luxury, are imported from the adjoining districts of Bengal'.)