Company orders grain storage and trade controls
- When
- October 1769
- Where
- Patna and Murshidabad, within Bengal
- Part of
- Onset of Bengal Drought
In October 1769 the Company directed storehouse construction in Patna and Murshidabad and instructed officials to prevent trade monopolies.
In October 1769, the Company requested that storehouses be constructed in Patna and Murshidabad. City officials were instructed to prevent monopoly of trade and to have farmers raise "every sort" of dry grain that was possible. These measures responded to the deteriorating season but did not halt the crisis: rice prices, already doubled by the end of 1769, rose a further three-fold in 1770, and by the summer of 1770 people were dying everywhere.
Sources
- Great Bengal famine of 1770 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-11
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