Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c30.t2.224

v2.c30.t2.224

Commerce.—Whatever celebrity Jaisalmer possesses, as a commercial mart, arises from its position as a place of transit between the eastern countries, the valley of the Indus, and those beyond that stream, the Kitars (the term for a caravan of camels) to and from Haidarabad, Rori-Bakhar, Shikarpur and Uchh, from the Gangetic provinces, and the Panjab, passing through it. The indigo of the Duab, the opium of Kotah and Malwa, the famed sugar-candy of Bikaner, iron implements from Jaipur, are exported to Shikarpur¹ and lower Sind; whence elephants' teeth (from Africa), dates, coco-nuts, drugs, and chandan,² are imported, with pistachios and dried fruits from Bahawalpur.