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SUGAR MANUFACTURE IN MEDIEVAL NORTH INDIA
Posted Date: 17 Jan 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: SajithkumarS Member Level: Diamond
Rating:  Points: 3
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The scope of this paper is restricted mainly to north India between the
sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It discusses the methods of sugarcane
cultivation and manufacture during that time span: rationing of the crop and
boiling of the juice at different levels to obtain products of varying
purities with, perhaps, an addition of some whitening agents. With the help
of the scientific understanding available from the nineteenth century, the
paper tries to show that some of the important features relating to the
manufacture were common knowledge. Further, it appears that though sugarcane
crushing equipment was somewhat backward till the iron-rollers were introduced
in the nineteenth century, the earlier equipage was quite effective in
crushing the sugarcane into pulp to obtain over 75 percent juice. The
location of the crushing and boiling arrangements near the field was also
judicious in so far as it arrested the reversal process which set in
immediately after the plants were cut. The discussion suggests that better
results, both in the field and quality, could be obtained with the use of
certain plants/herbs and if can crushing and processing of the juice is
arranged closer to the fields.
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