The Company Weavers of Bengal: The East India Company and the Organization of Textile Production in Bengal 1750-1813

by Hameeda Hossain

The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195620437
• ISBN13: 9780195620436
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"