A History of Assam c19.26

c19.26

Mr. Lindsay experimented with the cultivation of indigo and the silk worm, but he was not very successful, owing to the heavy floods. He also grew some coffee, but did not persevere in its cultivation. He imported a quantity of wheat and distributed it amongst a number of the zamindars, but they did not attempt to plant it out. The crops in his time were generally good; in 1781, however, there was an exceptionally heavy flood, which swept away the granaries and reduced the people to such straits that one-third are said to have died of starvation.