The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.114
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.114
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The English trade with the East during the first half of the seventeenth century was to a large extent confined to five classes of goods—spices (from the Archipelago and the Spice Islands), raw silk from Persia, saltpetre, indigo and cotton goods from India. A fair quantity of the finer cotton cloths was consumed in England; but for the most part the Company’s purchases of cotton goods were made not for England but for the markets of the Further East and of Persia, while India’s export trade in silk goods was insignificant, England taking her raw silk chiefly from Persia and China, and her manufactured silk articles from China.