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What was rat hunt? What did it signify?

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Answered by GOPINTR

To stop the spread of plague, as rat hunt was started in 1902. Vietnamese workers were hired for the task and were paid for each rat being caught. People began to catch rats in thousands. The payment was done when a tail of a rat was shown as a proof that a rat had been killed.

ps4player987: What did it signify

GOPINTR: what signify

GOPINTR: be an indication of.

"this decision signified a fundamental change in their priorities"

synonyms:be evidence of, be a sign of, mark, signal, mean,spell, add up to, amount to, denote, be symptomatic of, be a symptom of, reveal,manifest, designate;More

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USinformal

(among black Americans) exchange boasts or insults as a game or ritual.

Answered by chiranshievyas

In 1902, the Bubonic plague hit the elite quarters of Vietnam. To uproot this problem the French government introduced the rat hunt.

Vietnamese workers were hired and payed for every rat they killed.
The rat catchers had to give the tail of the rat as proof that they had killed the rat.
The Vietnamese figured out if they just clipped the tail, release the rats and gave it as proof then it would increase their profit. Some people even began to raise rats for the same.
In a way, this rat menace also marks the limits of French power and the contradictions in their ' civilising mission'.

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