Which region in india provided the best quality salt petre and opium to the europeans?
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Salt-petre was required in the manufacture of gunpowder. The European countries being frequently involved in warfare, the demand for this commodity quickly developed in Europe. The trading commodity next in importance to salt-petre was opium. Sarkars Bahar and Monghyr were notable for opium cultivation. Patna opium was thought to be of a better quality than the Monghyr opium. Merchants from northern and western India used to come to Patna to buy opium. There was an export trade in opium which expanded considerably owing to European participation in it.118 There is reference to a few dealers who established a monopoly in the purchase of opium in the seventeenth century and sold it at an immense profit to foreign merchants
Answer:Bihar
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