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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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waysand irrigation not charged against revenue,amounting in 1899-1900 to over $20,000,000. The total public debt of India on 31 March 1900, was $995,637,675, of which $374,915,670 represented the debt in India, and the rest the debt in England. The largest item in the revenue is that derived from land, which amounted in the year under review to $89,376,150. (See paragraph on Land Tenure and Revenue.)The revenue from forests was $6,177,125, andthe total amount of tribute received from nativestates was $2,933,015. The revenue from opium amounted to $22,009,610, but the net revenue is less than that amount by about $8,500,000. The opium revenue is raised partly by a monopoly in Bengal, and partly by the levy of a duty on all opium exported from native states. The cultivation of the opium poppy is absolutely prohibited in British territory, except in certain parts of Bengal and the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. but a few thousand acres in the Panjabgrow it for local consumption. The opium INDIA.
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IMAGE: Hall in temple, Madura. INDIA grower in the monopoly districts receives ad-vances from government to enable him to prepare the land for the crop, and he is required todeliver the whole t his produce to governmentagent9 at the fixed price of 6 rupees per seer.1 lie manufacture for the foreign market is carried on only in the government factories at Patna and Ghazipur, and the chests of manufac-tured opium are sold by auction at monthly sales in Calcutta. Outside of British territory opium (known as Malwa opium) is cultivated in the native states of Rajputana and Central India,and some of these states have agreed to control the manufacture and sale of opium in much the same way as the Indian government does in British territory. They levy heavy duties on opium exported from their territories for the China market, and the Indian treasury imposes on all such opium a duty now fixed at $166.66per chest. The revenue from taxation is$201,000,000, the chief item in it being the saltrevenue, $29,252,315. The salt reve

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