Which one of the following was primarily associated with 'Dadni' system?
- A.Textile production
- B.Warfare
- C.Payment to officials
- D.Revenue collection
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Textile production. Under the dadni system, European companies gave cash advances to weavers through middlemen to secure cloth for export.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the English, Dutch and French companies bought huge quantities of cotton and silk cloth in Bengal and other regions. Merchants called dadni merchants took an advance, or dadan, from a company and passed it to weavers, who then had to deliver cloth of the agreed quality by a set date. After the Company won political power in Bengal from 1757, it removed these merchants and appointed paid servants called gomasthas to deal with weavers directly. Weavers bound by advances lost the freedom to sell to others and were often forced to accept low prices.
B is wrong because dadni had nothing to do with fighting wars. C is wrong because it was an advance to producers, not a salary to officials. D is wrong because it was a trading arrangement, not a system of land revenue.
Exam tip: Dadni = advance to weavers for cloth; after 1757 the Company replaced dadni merchants with gomasthas.
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