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S3 Dufferin Report. For Patna Division submitted byj. Boxwell, Commissioner.
34 Dufferin Report. For Bhagalpur submitted Beerhan Deo Narayan, assistant Settlement Officer.
35 Duffenn Repon, For Puri Division submitted by C. Worsley, Commissioner.
36 Dufferin Report, Subsidiary report for Howrah district, submitted by Mr. Ritchie, Magistrate, Howrah district.
37 Report of the Indian Factory Commission, 1890 proceedings of the 22nd meeting held on 22nd Oct., 189C at Calcutta, testimony of the second witness, Taroai.
38 7<99^ -Labour Commission, pp. 43-44.
39 Ibid, ^. 3.
40 B. Folery Report on fabwir in Bengal, 1906, Government of Bengal, chp. 3, para 22, p. 19. ^
41 Ranjit Das Gupta: Hfs forthcoming work on the rural linkages of Bengal Labour discusses this point. Y
42 See for example* A.K. Sen : Employment Technology and Development Oxford University Press, Delhi 1975, pp. 37.
43 Ranjit Dasgupta : "Factory Labour in Eastern India" in Socialand Economic History Review Vol. XIII, No. 3, Delhi 1976 Table 10, pp. 320. See also p. 326.
44 Several Songs of the Bihari women regarding the Calcutta Jute Mills and Coal mines have been quoted by D.P. Saxena in Rururban Migration in India, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1977, pp. 175-178.
45 Curjel Report op. cit.
46 Curjel Report p. 2
47 Royal Commission foi Labour 1931—Evidence Vol. V Part 2 Oral Evidence—Bengal 3rd Feb. 1930 p. 5 E 55
48 Curjel Report, App Ap (iv)
49 Ibid-p. 5.
50 Ibid-p. 14.
51 Ibid~p. 13. Also evidence given by Manager, Soorajute Mills
52 Ibid App A p.(iv).
53 Ibid— evident e given by Mr. Williamson of Kinnisonjuie Mill.
54 Ibid—evidence given by Mr. Murray of Olive Jute Mill.
55 Ibid-p. 2.
56 Ibid App A p.(x).
57 Indian Factory Commission 7
58 Radhakamal Mukherjee— The Indian Working Class Hindi Kitabs. Bombay 1945, p. 246.
59 Ibid-pp. 247
60 Curjel Report App A p. iv. Also evidence given by Mr. Patterson of Union Jute Mill.
61 Samaresh Basu -Jaggadal (Bengali) Bak Publishers Calcutta 1966 gives a vivid pictui of the changing life in one jure mill area around the turn of the century.
