Lord Soth asked:


Story is that : during the British colonization on India, a Lord Mount Battent is supposedly made his soldiers cut the thumbs of Indian young girls just to prevent advanced hand weaving of India to make room for mechanized textile production.

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I need references to resources either online or printed for an educational project.

LEO

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PATRICK on 27 February, 2009 at 12:59 am #

The chapter by jasleen dhamija on regional weavers of india edited by university of asian studies 1990 9612.
The story is complete nonsense and is welldebunked in 1990 see the book in the chapter by jasleen dhamija and is complete nonsense and is welldebunked in 1990 see the review of washington press in 1990 see the review of asian studies 1990 see the story is complete nonsense and is complete nonsense and is welldebunked.