1.Who was a jobber ? Explain his functions. (3)
2. Explain the series of steps taken up by East India company to develop the system of management and control over the Indian weavers. (5)
3.By 1750 network controlled by Indian mearchents was breaking down. Explain (5/3)
Answers
1.
The main functions of a Jobber were :
(i) Getting people from villages. (ii) Ensuring them jobs. (iii) Helping them to settle in the city and to provide them money in times of crisis.
2.The East India Company controlled the market of cotton and silk goods in the following manner : ... The Company tried to eliminate the existing traders and brokers connected with the cloth trade, and establish a more direct control over the weavers. For this, it appointed a paid servant called the gomastha.
3.By the 1750s, the network of export trade controlled by Indian merchants was breaking down. This was primarily due to the fact that (i) The European companies were gaining power. They had secured monopoly rights to trade. (ii) The credit that had financed the earlier trade began drying up.