This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...of Midnapore, where the decline is due chiefly to the decline in the cocoon-rearing industry caused by silkworm epidemics. 146. Having stated what I consider to be the true industrial position of the Bengal silk-weaving industry, I will now quote from the district monographs the remarks of the various local ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...of Midnapore, where the decline is due chiefly to the decline in the cocoon-rearing industry caused by silkworm epidemics. 146. Having stated what I consider to be the true industrial position of the Bengal silk-weaving industry, I will now quote from the district monographs the remarks of the various local officers on this subject. They are nearly all pessimistic in tone and based on the groundless belief that the silk industry is decaying. One point noticed by most of them is of vital importance, viz., tlie harm done to the silk-weaving industry (as to other industries) by the indebtedness of the weavers to mahafans, who charge very heavy rates of interest on advances of money. If the silk-weavers could be relieved of this burden, the industry would be in a still more prosperous condition. 147. The Murshidabad monograph has the following lines bearing on the question of the industrial position of the silk industry as a whole and the silk-weaving industry in particular: --i The method on which many of these rearers carry on their business is industrially a bad one. The filature-owners and their employes in many oases advance money to them and buy their cocoons at a price fixed according to the ourrent rates in the silk market. Interest being charged, the rearers frequently get into financial difficulties. Those who work on their own ottpital are in a much more favourable position. As a olass, rearers are a peaceful and qniet people, and litigation is almost unknown amongst them. ' There seems no doubt that the silk-weaving industry is on the decline. The importation of foreign stuffs has of course a great deal to do with this. Another reason lies in he lack of interprise displayed in disposiug of native fabrics. Where there is an attempt at...
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