Ilambazar

Ilambazar was a manufacturing and trading town in Birbhum, on the western side of Bengal. Its merchants dealt in textiles and indigo, while the East India Company organised a substantial silk trade in the surrounding district through a commercial resident. In June 1789 a band attacked and plundered Ilambazar in daylight, illustrating the insecurity that could accompany the expansion of commerce in the years after Bengal’s great famine.