18th century Bengal trade

Trade was one of the main sources of prosperity for Bengalis. For this, the wealth of the merchants' society stood prominently. This merchant community established the city of Calcutta. Not only the newbie foreigners who own goods from the Bangalar hats, it is not. Traders from different parts of India came to buy goods in Bengal's market. Among them, Kashmiri, Multani, Afghanistan, Pathan, Sheikh, Pagga, Bhutia and Sannyasis are particularly remarkable. We do not know who the monks are, right. It seems that they used to sell sandalwood, bamboo and herbal trees from the Himalayan Sanu country. In return, they could take their necessary supplies from Bengal. From a hallwell report we learn that the dalits and the pagua from Agra would have come to Bardhaman to buy a lot of quantity, lead, copper, tin and chilli. And instead of the burden, they used to sell opium, horse and sora in Bengal. Likewise, the people of Kashmir bought salty, leather, blue, tobacco, sugar, saddle cloth and precious gems from Bengal. They are sold to Nepal and Tibetan people.

The traders from outside Bengal came to Bengal, as Bengal businessmen could also get out of Bengal. In 1772, we can learn from a Bengali book titled Harilila written by Joynarayan. On the occasion of a mercantile business in Bengal, Huntinapur, Cornesh, Kalinga, Gurjar, Varanasi, Maharashtra, Kashmir, Bhoj, Panchal, Kamboj, Magadha, Jayanti, Dravid, Nepal, Kaki, Ayodhya, Nasti, Mathura, Kampilah, Mayapuri, Mughal and Kamrupa migrated to the country.

Those who were engaged in trade, they would have been rich by earning a couple of rupees. Their wealth has become prominent. The lifestyle of the rich was completely different from the general public. Foreigners were surprised to see their clothes and ornaments. The richest people of Gaur and East Bengal used to eat gold plate dish. In the seventeenth century, in the seventeenth century, Ferishta commented that the number of gold plates in the house of a rich person was the measure of his wealth.

In the eighteenth century, the price of goods was very cheap. From a price we get in Murshidabad in a price list of 1729 AD, I can learn that the fine rice obtained in Murshidabad will be one to ten times better than one heart, domestic rice, four quintals, seven to twenty seven, two best wheat, three The mind is 30, oil is 21 to the 24th, the eleven sticks from 11 to 4 splash, and cotton two hearts to two hearts 30s.

But in spite of this kindness there was poverty of the people of the lower castes. The causes of poverty were torture and oppression of government employees. If not able to give the kingdom, any Hindu wife and sons would be sold to the Neelam. Besides, when the government employees were raping the peasants. It did not have any effect. At that time, on the battlefield of the soldiers, the torture of the soldiers and the mugs of Portuguese bandits and the bandits of Portuguese bandits in the southern part of Bengal. They only looted and burnt the villages in villages, not only raped girls and carried innumerable men and women and sold them to foreign slaves. More was also the oppression of foreign merchants. Bhartchand has written in his' Annadamangal 'poem -' The mercenary dealer gets the foreigner. It was in the midday of the century.