. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . tter price than sugar made in amodern refinery. Religious and caste prejudices exert a stronginfluence also. In modern sugar refining, animal charcoal is theprincipal purifying and decolorizing agent, and this, togetherwith the fact that ox-blood has been used for clarification,causes the Hindus to reject sugar prepared by such means. Fi-nally, there is the apprehension on the part of the high-castenatives that the sugar may have been produced by low-castelabor and that to eat it would bring defilement. The refiners o
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . tter price than sugar made in amodern refinery. Religious and caste prejudices exert a stronginfluence also. In modern sugar refining, animal charcoal is theprincipal purifying and decolorizing agent, and this, togetherwith the fact that ox-blood has been used for clarification,causes the Hindus to reject sugar prepared by such means. Fi-nally, there is the apprehension on the part of the high-castenatives that the sugar may have been produced by low-castelabor and that to eat it would bring defilement. The refiners of India have begun to recognize the advantageto them in using raw European beet-root sugars and raw canefrom Java and Mauritius instead of the more costly prepara-tions of rab and gur. As a result, there is a considerable quan-tity of foreign sugar imported into India which is consumedultimately by the high-caste native without his being aware ofits origin. The imports during the period from 1908 to 1916 were as fol-lows: 1908-09 535,664 tons of 2240 556,840 -.
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