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102 PROBLEMS CONFRONTING RUSSIA
market in the future, when easier ways of communication are
established.
To those articles of Russian manufacture which should find
a ready sale in India upon a large scale should be added gold
brocade, galloons, lace embroideries, and gold thread. These
articles are manufactured chiefly for the use of the Greek
Orthodox Church, and are inexpensive. In India they would
serve the purposes of various classes of the population, who
like to embellish their garments and headgear with showy
gold adornments. Russian gold thread is known on the
Indian market, and the demand for it is very steady. This
trade is bound to assume bigger proportions in the future,
as Russian manufacturers are endeavouring to study the
requirements of the Indian market, and to find out what
sorts of Russian gold lace are most suitable to the taste of
Indians.
Of other classes of Russian goods which may be suitable
for import into India, mention may be made of liqueurs,
such as kiimmel, kirsch, gin, etc. ; cigarettes, a speciality
of Russia, which are second to none, and are comparatively
cheap, meeting the requirements of a gradually increasing
demand; Swedish matches, top-boots, which find buyers in
Afghanistan and Northern India ; deal, ply-wood, vegetable
oils, oil-cakes, hides, grease, etc.
It is time that Indian buyers should become acquainted
with Russian industrial productions. To that effect,
Russian people have been advised to send out catalogues
written in English, to avail themselves of travelling agents
in India, to appoint representatives on the spot, providing
them with the necessary samples of Russian goods. It
would also be desirable to establish museums in certain
places, possibly in rooms connected with the Russian
Consulates in India. By such and analogous methods, the
importation of goods from Russia to India, followed by an
increase of exports from India into Russia, could be fostered.
India has nothing to lose and much to gain from such growth ;
she is dependent to a great extent on imported imdustrial
products and manufactures ; her interest lies in providing
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