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?

    <p>To publicly shame him for working illegally</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the lullaby sung by Saliya weavers long for?

    <p>A mystical time when their looms contained a silver plank</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Due to declining income and living standards</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Decrease in weavers' income</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Flogged him severely and painted his face black and white</p> 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?

    <p>Decreased to about 6 percent</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Resulted in 'unprecedented mortality among the Weavers'</p> 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?

    <p>To remember a time of prosperity</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>'Unprecedented mortality among the Weavers'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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