Although women constituted a significant part of the total labour force in the mines of India, yet till the end of First World War almost next to nothing was done to promote their health and welfare. In the absence of welfare legislations and voluntary work, women faced serious hardship and...

Next to agriculture, the economic condition of the largest number of people in Bengal depended on cottage industries. Yet this important branch of the economy remained neglected for a long time with the result that many cottage industries decayed and many more were in a moribund condition. The...

The Bengal State Aid to Industries Act was passed in 1931 to enable state aid to be given mainly for the purpose of encouraging cottage industries on a small scale. The Act was the outcome of a recommendation made by the Indian Industrial Commission in 1918 which stated that "assistance... be...

Bengal in the first half of the eighteenth century was a prosperous and flourishing province, noted for its wealth and manufactures. It was this affluence which induced the contemporaries to describe Bengal in such terms as 'Paradise of Nations', 'the Paradise of India', or 'the realm of...

This paper is an attempt to study some aspects of the unemployment problem in Bengal during the period under review. Since the unemployment question was a wide one affecting as it did the various sections of the community in various ways and in different degrees, we have restricted our field of...

Cotton textiles of every sort - fine, superfine and coarse - were once manufactured in abundance in the province of Bengal. The produce of the looms not only fully met the internal demand of her population but was also exported to distant lands where it was held in high esteem. The extraordinary...

Even after nearly two hundred years of British rule over Bengal, the industrial development of the province remained pitiful. Various causes such as lack of enterprise and industrial aptitude among the people, shyness of capital, want of skilled manpower, smallness of market, underdeveloped...

From the onset of British rule in Bengal, the crime of dacoity which was termed "the most serious in character, the most vexatious in its immediate and remote effects of any that disgrace our calendar" plagued the rulers. As such very stern measures were adopted with the establishment of British...