Traders in Shrinagar Garhwal in Gurkha Rule

Gurkha/Gorkha Ignoring Commerce Development in Garhwal and Kumaon -5

History Discussion on Gurkha/Gorkha Administration in Garhwal - 48

History of Gorkha /Nepal Rule over Kumaun, Garhwal and Himachal (1790-1815) -111    

   History of Uttarakhand (Garhwal, Kumaon and Haridwar) -632

                          By: Bhishma Kukreti (A History Student)

           Most of the trade of Garhwal, Kumaon was in done by small or big individual traders. The representatives of Traders from Nazibabad, and Doab (Plains of Yamuna-Ganga region) used to stay in Shrinagar Garhwal. Those representatives used to create markets for goods of plains and used to appoint traders in Garhwal. Those representatives also used to arrange export from Garhwal to their business houses in plains.

 Those representatives used to come to Shrinagar after rainy season and used to return in plains just before rainy season start. In 1808, there were 60-70 small Muslim traders in Shrinagar (Asiatic Researches vol 11, 491). Those Muslim traders used to seel products as from onion to silk products in Shrinagar. Gurkha administrators used to harass those small traders and slowly small traders of plains stopped coming to Shrinagar. Many traders shifted from Shrinagar.

*** This chapter References –

Moorcroft, Travels in Hindustan Atkinson

 Trail, Sketches of Kumaon 

John Premble, Invasion of Nepal: John Company at war

English Pre Mutiny Records, Kumaon 1816

Garhwal Settlement Reports

** Most of references and details were taken from Dr Dabral

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti Mumbai, India, bckukreti@gmail.com7/5//2015

History of Garhwal – Kumaon-Haridwar (Uttarakhand, India) to be continued… Part -633

*** History of Gorkha/Gurkha /Nepal Rule over Kumaun, Garhwal and Himachal (1790-1815) to be continued in next chapter 

(The History of Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar write up is aimed for general readers)

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History Gurkha /Gorkha Rule over Garhwal, Kumaon, Uttarakhand; Himachal; History Gurkha /Gorkha Rule over Pauri Garhwal, Udham Singh Nagar Kumaon, Uttarakhand; Sirmour Himachal; History Gurkha /Gorkha Rule over Chamoli Garhwal, Nainital Kumaon, Uttarakhand; Kangara Himachal; History Gurkha /Gorkha Rule over Rudraprayag Garhwal, Almora Kumaon, Uttarakhand; Baghat Himachal; History Gurkha /Gorkha Rule over Tehri Garhwal, Champawat Kumaon, Uttarakhand; Punar Himachal; History Gurkha /Gorkha Rule over Uttarkashi Garhwal, Bageshwar Kumaon, Uttarakhand;  Nahan Himachal; History Gurkha /Gorkha Rule over Dehradun Garhwal, Pithoragarh Kumaon, Uttarakhand; History Himachal; 

Nepal Itihas, Garhwal Itihas, Kumaon Itihas, Himachal Itihas; Gurkha/Gorkha ka Kumaon par  Adhikar Itihas , Gurkha/Gorkha Garhwal par Shasan Itihas;  Gurkha/Gorkha Rule in Kumaon, Garhwal Uttarakhand; History Gurkha/Gorkha  Rule in Himachal,