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Violence and Corporal Punishment in Company's Operations

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Violence and Corporal Punishment in Company's Operations

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What was one of the violent measures the company resorted to against Indian weavers?

Flogging and painting the face of a weaver (correct)

Providing incentives for the weavers

Issuing warnings to weavers

Increasing the weavers' income

How did the weavers' income change from the late 17th century to the late 18th century?

Doubled

Remained the same

Increased significantly

Decreased from one-third of the price of cloth to about 6 percent (correct)

What impact did the company's policies have on Indian weavers?

An increase in income and living standards

No impact on their income

An increase in their share of cloth price

A decline in income and living standards (correct)

Why did the company march a weaver through the town escorted by seapoys?

To publicly shame him for working illegally (B) Signup and view all the answers

What did the lullaby sung by Saliya weavers long for?

A mystical time when their looms contained a silver plank (C) Signup and view all the answers

Why did the company observe 'unprecedented mortality among the Weavers' by 1795?

Due to declining income and living standards (C) Signup and view all the answers

What was the consequence of the company's violent policies towards Indian weavers?

Decrease in weavers' income (A) Signup and view all the answers

How did the company punish a weaver for working illegally for a private merchant?

Flogged him severely and painted his face black and white (B) Signup and view all the answers

What do historians like Om Prakash suggest happened to the share of the producer in the price of cloth from the late 17th century to the late 18th century?

Decreased to about 6 percent (C) Signup and view all the answers

What impact did the decline in income and living standards have on Indian weavers?

Resulted in 'unprecedented mortality among the Weavers' (A) Signup and view all the answers

Why did Indian weavers sing a lullaby longingly about a mystical time when their looms contained a silver plank?

To remember a time of prosperity (C) Signup and view all the answers

What was one of the consequences of weavers' income falling by the late 18th century?

'Unprecedented mortality among the Weavers' (A) Signup and view all the answers