Passionate Projectors: Savants and silk on the Coromandel coast 1780-98.

Authors :: Berg, Maxine
Source :: Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History. Winter2013, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p7-7. 1p.
Publication Year :: 2013
Abstract: The article looks at botanist and surgeon James Anderson's silk projects along India's Coromandel coast. Anderson set up an extensive network of correspondents, learning which species of silkworm and mulberry tree were the best options for plantations in Southern India. Ultimately the venture failed, but according to the author it shows how many of English trading company, the East India Company's ventures in India were economically inviable.