Jute Growing

Jute is a fibre produced from the bark of the genus corchorus family. The fibre is often referred to as gunny-fibre or hessian. It was a very important export from India and was manufactured in India and Great Britain. Dundee was the UK end of the Indian Jute Trade and the University has a lot of data, including lists of people (mostly Scotsmen) involved in the Jute Trade in India.

Summary Of Holdings Relating To The Indian Subcontinent held at Dundee University

• MS 11 BAXTER BROTHERS, LINEN AND JUTE MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE.

  Brief genealogical notes concerning engineer at Seranjgunge Jute Co. Ltd, late 1800s; Representatives Report Books - India 1927.

• MS 31 DR. RUTH YOUNG, C.B.E. (1884?1983)

  Description of voyage on board S.S. Narkunda, from Bombay to Liverpool, taken from journal, 1940.

• MS 38 HERBERT WATT TORRANCE, MEDICAL MISSIONARY (1892?1977)

  Postcards of India: Kanchanjunga range, South India, Benares/Cawnpore, Agra-Delhi-Fatephur, Sikri. c.1930s.

• MS 42 GIDDINGS & LEWIS?FRASER LTD, ENGINEERS ARBROATH, INCORPORATING DOUGLAS FRASER & SONS LTD, LINEN AND JUTE MANUFACTURERS

  Includes papers relating to business in India 1875?1963.

• MS 45 LEWIS C. GRANT, ENGINEERS, DYSART (FIFE), INCORPORATING DOUGLAS & GRANT

  Letter books and correspondence files, including technical data, 1892?1956 - includes file: "Rice Mill Data, Tanjore, Madras, South India, Calcutta" 1911-1926, “Report on the Industrial Development of Bengal” 1915, memoranda books, diaries relating to overseas tours including India 1924 and 1935.

• MS 66 SIDLAW INDUSTRIES, MEADOW PLACE BUILDINGS, DUNDEE
  • MS 66/II COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE

  Private letter book No 1, 1869-1893: contains many letters relating to Calcutta business; pass book with branches of the Chartered Bank of India 1906-1921; also a history of the Camperdown Jute Mill, Calcutta.

  • MS 66/X SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD, PREVIOUSLY JUTE INDUSTRIES LTD, DUNDEE.

  Correspondence relating to Dundee and Calcutta hessian business 1928; photograph of floor plan of Camperdown Press, Cossipore.

  • MS 66/XI MISCELLANEOUS ASSOCIATED AFFILIATED AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES OF JUTE INDUSTRIES LTD

  Includes records relating to Jute Industries Limited Calcutta Agency 1909-1947, and Camperdown Pressing Company, Calcutta 1923-1942.

• MS 73 JOHN P. INGRAM (d.1984), SHIPPING CORRESPONDENT

  Shipping notebooks, with some reference to Bombay trade, Calcutta etc. 19 C, 20 C.

• MS 82 WILSON FAMILY PAPERS

  Papers relating to shares in the Mysore Gold Mining Company 1919,1921.

• MS 83 THE JUTE IMPORTERS ASSOCIATION

• MS 84 ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS

  Photographs include Lawrence Jute Mill, Calcutta, 1921.

• MS 86 A. & S. HENRY & CO. LTD
  • MS 86/I SAMNUGGUR JUTE FACTORY CO. LTD, SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, CALCUTTA

  Minute books 1874?1976, shareholding records 1912?1966, ledgers 1933?1959, cash books 1935?1966, journal 1924?1975, balance sheets 1919?1976, annual reports 1904?1958, memoranda and articles of association 1874?1976, employees' records 1913?1950, order books 1926?1964, specifications, quotations and price lists 1874?c.1900, plans c.1874?1977 [140] and technical drawings 1874?1896 [27], photographs c.1890?1971 [54].

  • MS 86/II VICTORIA JUTE FACTORY CO. LTD, SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, CALCUTTA

  Minute books 1892?1976, shareholding records 1883?1906 and 1919?1947, ledgers 1930?1972, cash books 1935?1964, journal 1924?1973, balance sheets 1918?1977, annual reports 1884?1958, 1965, memoranda and articles of association 1883?1979, letter books 1928?1982, employees' records 1925?1961, order books 1922?1964, plans 1928 and 1941?1973 [23], photographs c.1890 and 1957 [4].

  • MS 86/III TITAGHUR JUTE FACTORY CO. LTD, SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, CALCUTTA

  Minute books 1883?1974, shareholding records 1918?1969, ledgers 1931?1972, cash books 1932?1979, balance sheets 1884?1906, 1924?1976, annual reports 1900?1958, memoranda and articles of association 1883?1979, letter books 1928?1982, employees' records 1913?1956, miscellaneous technical records 1890?1897, plans 1878?1976 [123], technical drawings 1887?1897 [23], photographs c.1890?1910, c.1930?1950 [29].

  • MS 86/IV ANGUS COMPANY LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, TEXTILE ENGINEERS, CALCUTTA

  Cash books 1933?1972, journal 1934?1965, annual reports 1913?1970, memoranda and articles of association 1913?1969, letter book 1953?1967, employees' records 1933?1965, order books 1933?1963, sales notes 1956?1976, miscellaneous records c.1928?1977, plans and technical drawings 1968?1977 [8], photographs 1945?1957 [10].

  • MS 86/V THOMAS DUFF & CO. LTD, MANAGING AGENTS, DUNDEE AND CALCUTTA

  Minute books 1883?1945, ledgers 1930?1973, cash books 1922?1959, journals 1920?1954, balance sheets 1918?1950, memoranda and articles of association 1883?1964, letter books or files 1929?1968, managers' reports to directors 1930?1974, employees' records c.1913?1970, sales and production records 1945?1976, files relating to modernisation and electrification 1942?1971 and to company reconstruction 1947?1950, miscellaneous records 1880?1977, plans 1865?1923 [25], photographs c.1900?1970 [84].

  • MS 86/XXII INDIAN JUTE MILLS ASSOCIATION

  Reports of Committee 1935?1977, research institute: reports of committee 1943?1964, miscellaneous reports 1949?1966, statistics 1853?1964, chairman's addresses to A.G.Ms. 1973?1978, miscellaneous records 1949?1972.

  • MS 86/XXIII BENGAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

  Reports of committee 1949?1978, proceedings of annual general meetings 1953?1976, miscellaneous records 1853?1975.

• MS 89 JAMES F. LOW & CO. LTD, TEXTILE ENGINEERS, MONIFIETH

  Machinery records and order books, including references to customers in India and Pakistan 1870-1959, plans and drawings include various plans for Calcutta mills 1919-1920.

• MS 93 D.J. MACDONALD LTD, ENGINEERS, DUNDEE.

  Photograph of unidentified jute mill.

• MS 95 THOMSON SHEPHERD & CO., LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE;

  Notebook including comparisons of spinning and weaving production and costs with Calcutta mills, late 18 C.; Jute and Gunny Statistics Vol III, Calcutta, 1938-1948.

• MS 107 CALCUTTA AND MOFUSSIL SCOTS SOCIETY

  Agendas, minutes 1954-1992, financial papers 1954-1976, papers relating to outings 1954-1992, miscellaneous secretarial files 1954-1971, photographs 1955-1988.

• MS 114 BRITISH JUTE TRADE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

  Publications including Annual Reports, Technical Reports and Bulletins 1948-1969, miscellaneous volumes 1867-1966, miscellaneous papers 1952-1992, photographs n.d.

• MS 249 THE G. RONALD CAMERON COLLECTION

  Includes photographs showing jute cultivation and preparation in India.

• MS 253 NORMAN SOUTAR PHOTOGRAPHS

  Photographs of Barnagore Cricket Club and Megna Mills staff.

More detailed information about our records relating to the Indian textile industry can be found at: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/slindtexttop.htm

A full source list of material relating to India is available in the Archive Services search room.

Textile Industry and Other Books relating to the Indian subcontinent held in Dundee University Archives book collections

• Author: Stewart, Gordon T.

Title: Jute and Empire. The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the landscape of Empire

Publication date: 1998

• Author: British-Continental Trade Press Ltd

Title: The Jute & Canvas Trades Year-Book & Directory

Publication date: 1946

• Author: Arnott, R.J. & Tysser, H.F.

Title: Jute Annual 1933

Publication date: 1933

• Author: Carter, William

Title: Carter's Flax, Hemp and Jute Year Book and Directory

Publication date: 1949

• Author: British-Continental Trade Press

Title: The Jute Year Book. The Annual and Directory of the Jute, Canvas and Linoleum Industries and Trade

Publication date: 1940

• Author: Commonwealth Economic Committee

Title: Jute Manufactures: A memorandum on production, prices and trade prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Commonwealth Economic Committee

Publication date: 1955

• Author: International Labour Organisation

Title: Safety of Workers in the Textile Industry

Publication date: 1950

• Author: Government of Pakistan

Title: Report of the Jute Enquiry Commission

Publication date: 1960

• Author: Olbrecht, Urs

Title: The Indian Jute Industry from Colonial Times to the Present.

[Article].

Publication date:

• Author: Fraser, Eugenie

Title: A home by the Hooghly a jute wallah's wife

Publication date: 1989

• Author:

Title: The jute mills in Bengal

Publication date: 1880

• Author: Wallace, D.R.

Title: The romance of jute a short history of the Calcutta Jute Mill industry 1855-1909, 1909

Publication date: 1909

• Author: Pakistan. Ministry of Commerce. Jute Enquiry

Title: Report of the Jute Enquiry Commission 1960

Publication date: 1961

• Author: Woodhouse, Thomas

Title: The jute industry from seed to finished cloth

Publication date: 1921

• Author: Leng, Sir John

Title: Letters from India and Ceylon including the Manchester of India, the Indian Dundee, and Calcutta jute mills,

1895-96

Publication date: 1896?

• Author:

Title: Report on the Cultivation of Jute. Map showing the Jute growing districts of Bengal.

Publication date:

• Author: Kerr, Hem Chunder

Title: Report on the Cultivation of, and Trade in, Jute in Bengal, and on the Indian fibres available for the manufacture of paper.

Publication date: 1874

• Author: Sethia, Tara

Title: The Rise of the Jute Manufacturing Industry in Colonial India: A Global Perspective

Publication date: 1996

• Author: Sastry, D. U. (Davangere Umpathi)

Title: The cotton mill industry in India

Publication date: 1984

• Author: Geddes, Sir Patrick

Title: Patrick Geddes in India

Publication date: 1947

• Author: Leng, Sir John

Title: Letters from India and Ceylon including the Manchester of India, the Indian Dundee, and Calcutta jute mills, 1895-96

Publication date: 1896?

• Author: Jacob, Violet

Title: Diaries and letters from India, 1895-1900

Publication date: 1990

• Author: Hunter, William Wilson, Sir

Title: Rulers of India

Publication date: 1894

• Author: Wilson, Andrew

Title: The Abode of snow: observations on a journey from Chinese Tibet to the India Caucasus, through the upper valleys of the Himalaya

Publication date: 1875

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