History · Colonial Economy
UGC NET September 2013 History
In 1834, one of the following remarked on the famine that 'the bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India':
ADadabhai Naoroji
BR.C. Dutt
CWilliam Bentinck ✓ Correct
DPalme Dutt
Correct answer: (C) William Bentinck — Lord William Bentinck made this remark, so the answer is William Bentinck.
Explanation
★Lord William Bentinck made this remark, so the answer is William Bentinck.
★He spoke of the ruin of Indian cotton weavers under colonial trade.
★Cheap machine-made cloth from Britain destroyed the handloom weavers.
★The famine and misery that followed gave rise to his grim words.
★Bentinck was the Governor-General from 1828 to 1835.
★His reign saw the abolition of Sati and the suppression of Thuggee.
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