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Mango pickles are made thus :—|- seer vinegar, 9 pies: mangos (dried) £
seer, 3 pies; cheap shakkar, I geer 6 pies : red pepper one ohhatauk, 8 pies :
Jcalaunji (Nigella Indica) 3 pies: ginger 3 pies: mint (podina) 3 j.ies ; salt 1|
pies; miscellaneous small fruit (raisins &c.) one anna. Total 3 as. 7£ p. This
gives one seer pickles and profits of sale at 6 as. per seer are 2 as 4£ pies.
The manufacturer and vendor of pickles are usually one and the same per-
son. There is no wholesale and retail dealing as separate businesses; and all
•dealing in pickles is by the sirkdri seer. On the other hand dealing in preserves
is in two hands—the manufacturer's and the retailer's.
The former buys his ingredients and manufactures and sells at uavvabi
seer rates The retailer purchases at nawabi seer rate and sells by the lumbari
seer. Their relative cost prices and profits in the sample cases stand thus :—
Cost of materials etc. Sold by manufacturer and gold by retailer at
at naw&bi rate retailer at nawabi rate for lumbari seer rate for
m Es. As. P. Rs. As. P. Rs. As. P.
Auwalas, ... 0 4 6 0 8 0 9 7 0
Ginger, ... 083 0 12 0 0 14 4
Apples, ... 0 10 9 1 0 0 13 2
The demand for preserves and pickles is not large. They are articles of
luxury and the profits of manufacture must be high. Further, the demand is so
far precarious that there is risk of loss and deterioration of the value of stock
and this necessitates a high rate of profit in goods sold to compensate for po-
tential loss on goods unsold.
Addadar—This word properly signifies the owner of a stand or station
where persons of the same profession, porters, bearers, carriers, carters, and
the like congregate, and who receive from them a portion of their earnings
in return for the advantage given them by connection with the stand as a means
of securing employment. The word is now seldom used in cities except for
the proprietor of a station of doli-bearers: and the term udda kahdrdn is met
with in lists of licensed traders.
The system of business is this. A kahar having some capital and a con-
nection makes up a number of dolis and settles at a central part of a city. He
enters into an agreement with a number of kahars, professional doli-bearers,
and retains two for each doli. The kahars hold themselves in readiness to carry
a doli for the addadar when he calls on them to attend and whatever their
earnings be, they pay two annas in the rupee to the oddaddv. There is a fixed
charge for every well-known distance in the city and there is a separate charge
made for the time the kahars and doli are detained beyond the time spent in
carrying. Thus the fare from the Chauk to the Kachahri and back is 4 as. for
a doli with two bearers and 1 anna extra for every half hour that the doli is
detained, or 4 as. extra for the whole hours of business. It must be added
.that where the person hiring the doli lives at a distance from the ndcl«, he must
Mango pickles are made thus :—|- seer vinegar, 9 pies: mangos (dried) £
seer, 3 pies; cheap shakkar, I geer 6 pies : red pepper one ohhatauk, 8 pies :
Jcalaunji (Nigella Indica) 3 pies: ginger 3 pies: mint (podina) 3 j.ies ; salt 1|
pies; miscellaneous small fruit (raisins &c.) one anna. Total 3 as. 7£ p. This
gives one seer pickles and profits of sale at 6 as. per seer are 2 as 4£ pies.
The manufacturer and vendor of pickles are usually one and the same per-
son. There is no wholesale and retail dealing as separate businesses; and all
•dealing in pickles is by the sirkdri seer. On the other hand dealing in preserves
is in two hands—the manufacturer's and the retailer's.
The former buys his ingredients and manufactures and sells at uavvabi
seer rates The retailer purchases at nawabi seer rate and sells by the lumbari
seer. Their relative cost prices and profits in the sample cases stand thus :—
Cost of materials etc. Sold by manufacturer and gold by retailer at
at naw&bi rate retailer at nawabi rate for lumbari seer rate for
m Es. As. P. Rs. As. P. Rs. As. P.
Auwalas, ... 0 4 6 0 8 0 9 7 0
Ginger, ... 083 0 12 0 0 14 4
Apples, ... 0 10 9 1 0 0 13 2
The demand for preserves and pickles is not large. They are articles of
luxury and the profits of manufacture must be high. Further, the demand is so
far precarious that there is risk of loss and deterioration of the value of stock
and this necessitates a high rate of profit in goods sold to compensate for po-
tential loss on goods unsold.
Addadar—This word properly signifies the owner of a stand or station
where persons of the same profession, porters, bearers, carriers, carters, and
the like congregate, and who receive from them a portion of their earnings
in return for the advantage given them by connection with the stand as a means
of securing employment. The word is now seldom used in cities except for
the proprietor of a station of doli-bearers: and the term udda kahdrdn is met
with in lists of licensed traders.
The system of business is this. A kahar having some capital and a con-
nection makes up a number of dolis and settles at a central part of a city. He
enters into an agreement with a number of kahars, professional doli-bearers,
and retains two for each doli. The kahars hold themselves in readiness to carry
a doli for the addadar when he calls on them to attend and whatever their
earnings be, they pay two annas in the rupee to the oddaddv. There is a fixed
charge for every well-known distance in the city and there is a separate charge
made for the time the kahars and doli are detained beyond the time spent in
carrying. Thus the fare from the Chauk to the Kachahri and back is 4 as. for
a doli with two bearers and 1 anna extra for every half hour that the doli is
detained, or 4 as. extra for the whole hours of business. It must be added
.that where the person hiring the doli lives at a distance from the ndcl«, he must