Name: Sugar: Plant, Crystal, Empire
Author: Ketineni Ramarao

Cover of Sugar: Plant, Crystal, Empire, a book by Ketineni Ramarao - Industries of India

Sugar begins with a molecule and ends with an empire. This book follows sucrose from its chemistry and the cane field to the factory that had to stand beside the harvest, the markets and traders who price it, the labour question that politics decided, and the substitutes now pressing on demand.

133 pages · Published November 2026 · Free to read as a PDF

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Sugar - the book (PDF) 133 pages · 0.8 MB Sugar - source companion (PDF) 30 pages · 0.4 MB

Every reference number in the book resolves in the source companion: what each source is, how fully it was read, and its limits.

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