The Company Weavers of Bengal: The East India Company and the Organization of Textile Production in Bengal, 1750-1813The collapse of the weaving industry in eighteenth-century Bengal has been the subject of considerable controversy. Drawing on newly discovered eighteenth-century Bengali manuscripts that contain the East India Company's correspondence, account books, and deeds of agreement with weavers, Hossain here suggests that the decline of the weaving industry was largely a result of the Company's attempt to enforce lower wages and maintain strict control over the weavers. |
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The Social and Economic Environment | 1 |
The Weaver at Work | 20 |
Markets Merchants and Money | 64 |
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