Question

During a visit to Bengal it was noticed that people extensively used jute. why?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Around the mid-1830s, modern jute technology was launched at Dundee in Scotland and subsequently spread across the world – prominently in Bengal – to revolutionize the global packaging industry. Behind this success story of a modern industry hid a vibrant cottage industry in Bengal, which dates back to the pre-Common era. Bengal’s jute goods, manufactured on indigenous technology, are referred to in Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra in the ancient period, Abu’l Fażl’s Āʾīn-e Akbarī in the Middle Ages, and in several public documents on the eve of the modern era. Premodern industrial uses of jute are not, however, in evidence for the rest of the world, though its edible consumption was common. Melochia – which the historians believe an edible variety of jute, botanically called C. olitorious – was said to be a favorite vegetable of Jesus Christ and was cultivated along the Euphrates river. That was an indigenous crop of Bengal, where another variety, called C. capsularis, was cultivated for...