4. In pre British period Indian cultivators
produced items for daily use and some
luxury items such as silk
After Industrial Revolution, the peasants
were compelled to produce raw materials
like cotton and silk necessary for industrial
production.
5. The British encouraged production
aimed for the market.
Commercialization of agriculture
resulted in the emergence of
intermediaries, who collected
products from the farmers & sold them
in the market.
6. The cultivators were compelled to
exchange their products at price much lower
than the market.
The decline of indigenous production
brought about the entry of foreign goods .
India became the market place for foreign
goods
7. PEASANTS TOWARDS POVERTY
Climate change and natural calamities
adversely affected the agricultural
production.
The farmers were forced to pay taxes
even when there was no production.
8. Company also introduced several taxes on
essential commodities like salt, oil, kerosene.
The craftsmen and weavers who lost their jobs
as a result of the British policies sought and
gained work in a newly formed plantations.
The gap b/w income and liabilities of the
peasantry and laboring classes increased day by
day.
9. They were transformed into debtors.
Even their homesteads were given to
the money lenders in order to avoid
debt burden
10. CONCLUSION
commercialization of
agriculture resulted in the decline of
conventional agricultural
production and the policies adopted
by the British also pulled down the
poor peasants into the pool of
miseries.
