History · Colonial Economy
UGC NET June 2013 History
Who said: 'The misery hardly finds a parallel in the history of commerce. The bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India.'?
AWilliam Bentinck ✓ Correct
BG.M. Trevelyan
CC. Metcalfe
DLord Auckland
Correct answer: (A) William Bentinck — Lord William Bentinck said these words, so the answer is William Bentinck.
Explanation
★Lord William Bentinck said these words, so the answer is William Bentinck.
★He was Governor General of India from 1828 to 1835.
★His remark described the ruin of India's traditional cotton weavers under colonial trade.
★Cheap machine-made British cloth flooded India and destroyed the handloom industry.
★This deindustrialisation pushed many weavers into poverty and death.
★Bentinck is also known for banning sati and promoting English education.
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