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.
A List of Jute Mills in India
(compiled by Andrew Ramsay Nicholl and Jimmie Robertson of the Tay Valley Family History Society)
Albion Jute Mill Agents 1917, Andrew Yule & Co Number of Looms 1917, 340
Alexandra Jute Mill Agents 1917, Begg, Dunlop & Co Number of Looms 1917, 396
Alipur Jute Mill (Alipur Jail) Agents 1917, Government Number of Looms 1917, 50
Alliance Jute Mill Agents 1917, Begg, Dunlop & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1002
Anglo-India Jute Mill Agents 1917, Duncan, Brothers Number of Looms 1917, 2000
Angus Jute Mill Agents 1917, Angus Jute Mill Co Ltd Number of Looms 1917, 660
Asiatic Jute Mill Agents Number of Looms
Auckland Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 460
Balliaghatta Jute Mill Agents 1917, James Luke & Sons Number of Looms 1917, 177
Bally Jute Mill Agents 1917, George Henderson & Co Number of Looms 1917, 541
Barnagore Jute Mill Agents 1917, George Henderson & Co Number of Looms 1917, 2275
Belvedere Jute Mill Agents 1917, Andrew Yule & Co Number of Looms 1917, 400
Budge Budge Jute Mill Agents 1917, Andrew Yule & Co Number of Looms 1917, 782
Calcutta Jute Mill Agents Number of Looms
Caledonian Jute Mill Agents 1917, Andrew Yule & Co Number of Looms 1917, 350
Champdany Jute Mill Agents 1917, James Finlay & Co Ltd Number of Looms 1917, 494
Champdany Jute Mill, Wellington Branch Agents 1917, James Finlay & Co Ltd Number of Looms 1917, 577
Clive Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 868
Dalhousie Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 704
Delta Jute Mill Agents 1917, Andrew Yule & Co Number of Looms 1917, 610
Empire Jute Mill Agents 1917, McLeod & Co Number of Looms 1917, 400
Fort Gloster Jute Mill Agents 1917, Kettlewell, Bullen & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1350
Fort William Jute Mill Agents 1917, Kettlewell, Bullen & Co Number of Looms 1917, 900
Ganges Jute Mill Agents 1917, MacNeil & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1294
Gondalpara Jute Mill Agents 1917, Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Co Number of Looms 1917, 360
Gourepore Jute Mill Agents 1917, Barry & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1255
Hastings Jute Mill Agents 1917, Birkmyre Brothers Number of Looms 1917, 1052
Hoogly Jute Mill Agents 1917, Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Co Number of Looms 1917, 454
Howrah Jute Mill Agents 1917, Howeson Brothers Ltd Number of Looms 1917, 1663
India Jute Mill Agents 1917, MacKinnon Mackenzie Co Number of Looms 1917, 1033
Kamarhatty Jute Mill Agents 1917, Jardine, Skinner & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1710
Kanknarrah Jute Mill Agents 1917, Jardine, Skinner & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1521
Kelvin Jute Mill Agents 1917, McLeod & Co Number of Looms 1917, 600
Khardah Jute Mill Agents 1917, Anderson, Wright & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1370
Kinnison Jute Mill, near Barrackpore, Calcutta Agents 1917, F W Heilgers & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1221
Lansdowne Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 870
Lawrence Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 704
Ludlow Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Naihati Jute Mill Agents 1917, F W Heilgers & Co Number of Looms 1917, 430
Narcoldanga Jute Mill Agents 1917, James Park & Co Number of Looms 1917, 16
National Jute Mill Agents 1917, Andrew Yule & Co Number of Looms 1917, 611
New Central Jute Mill Agents 1917, Andrew Yule & Co Number of Looms 1917, 586
Northbrook Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 544
Oriental Jute Mill Agents Number of Looms
Reliance Jute Mill Agents 1917, Howeson Brothers Ltd Number of Looms 1917, 1000
Rustomgee Jute Mill Agents Number of Looms
Samnuggar Jute Mill, near Calcutta Agents 1917, Thomas Duff & Co Number of Looms 1880, 313; 1907, 922; 1917, 1572
Seebpore Jute Mill Agents Number of Looms
Serajgunge Jute Mill (now in Bangladesh) Agents Number of Looms
Soorah Jute Mill Agents 1917, McLeod & Co Number of Looms 1917, 175
Standard Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 640
Titaghur Jute Mill, near Calcutta Agents 1917, Thomas Duff & Co Number of Looms 1907, 1700; 1917, 1718
Union Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 504
Union South Jute Mill Agents 1917, Bird & Co Number of Looms 1917, 650
Victoria Jute Mill, near Calcutta Agents 1917, Thomas Duff & Co Number of Looms 1917, 1053
A List of Jute Mills in Bangladesh
(compiled by Andrew Ramsay Nicholl and Jimmie Robertson of the Tay Valley Family History Society)
Afil Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Ahad Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Ahmed Jutex Mills Agents Number of Looms
Ajax Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Al-Haj Aminuddin Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Aleem Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
A R A Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Asiatic Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Bengal Jute Industries Agents Number of Looms
Barisal Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Carpeting Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Charmuguria Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Chittagong Fibres Agents Number of Looms
Crescent Jute Mills, Town Khalishpur, Khulna District, Bangladesh Built in 1954, full address: Crescent Jute Mills Co Ltd, PO Box 2, Town Khalishpur, Khulna District, Bangladesh
Agents Number of Looms
Daulatpur Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Delta Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Eastern Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Faridpur Jute Fibres Agents Number of Looms
Hamidia Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Hussain Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Islam Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Islam Khan Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Jessore Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Jute Spinners Agents Number of Looms
Kwality Jute Yarn Mills Agents Number of Looms
Lytton Jute Industries Agents Number of Looms
Mutual Jute Spinners Agents Number of Looms
Modern Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Nawab Abdul Malek Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
New Dacca Jute Industries Agents Number of Looms
Nissan Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Noapara Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Northern Jute Manufacturing Company Agents Number of Looms
Patuakhali Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Peoples Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Perojpur Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Platinum Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Popular Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
R K Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Sadat Jute Industries Agents Number of Looms
Sarwar Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Sagar Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Saleh Jute Industries Agents Number of Looms
Shine Pukur Jute Spinners Agents Number of Looms
Shamsher Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Sonali Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Sonali Aansh Industries Agents Number of Looms
Specialised Jute Yarn and Twine Manufacturing Company Agents Number of Looms
Star Jute Mills Agents Number of Looms
Star Alkaid Jute Mill Agents Number of Looms
Transocean Fibres Processors Agents Number of Looms
Usha Jute Spinners Agents Number of Looms
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)
- 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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FIBIS resources
- Carol Turnham, "Letters from the Mill: the Calcutta Jute Industry" FIBIS Journal No 24 (Autumn 2010), pages 19-25 For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals.
Jute Mills along the Hooghly
Calcutta-Barrackpore-Chandernagore-Chinsura
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External links
- Dundee and India - Roots, Rivalry and Interdependence
- Jute in India
- Brian Cox's Jute Journey:
- "Jute route to roots- How actor Brian Cox soaked in the city" The Telegraph (Calcutta), 17 May 2009, about shooting the documentary Brian Cox’s Jute Journey, in Calcutta.
- "Hollywood star Brian Cox follows the trail of the Dundee jute workers who went to Calcutta", The Daily Record, 25 Sep 2009, interview with Brian Cox regarding the Dundee jute workers who went to Calcutta.
- Brian Cox's Jute Journey, blog post from the University of Dundee’s Archive Services
- Brian Cox's Jute Journey (reprise) has links to the University’s holdings.
- "The Jews of Agarpara" The Telegraph (Calcutta), 24 May 2009, details a jute connection. Part 2: "By the lazy river" The Telegraph (Calcutta), 31 May 2009.
Historical books online
The Romance Of Jute: A Short History of the Calcutta Jute Mill Industry 1855-1927 by D.R. Wallace, 2nd edition (1928) is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website.