The sugar position, actual and prospective, is not such that any additional issues of sugar for the manufacture of sweetmeats can, at present, be contemplated.
I interpret it as the collective name for sweetmeats and confections.
People make distinctive sweetmeats from milk products, including khurchan, peda, gulabjamun, petha, makkhan malai, and chamcham.
The fruit are often pickled and used as a substitute for tamarind or made into sweetmeat.
It is on the more expensive brands of chocolates and on the huge consumption of candy and other sweetmeats.
Surely they have had a chat about this nice little sweetmeat which is to be handed to them.
When one offers sweetmeats, one does so 'in order to destroy hunger and disease (ksudh-roga vin-san-ya)'.
Then they go to the market and buy sweetmeats and candy and hold a feast in their homes.
