| Read the following extract taken from the textbook and answer the questions given below: |
| Vasant Parkar, who was once a millworker in Bombay, said: |
| The workers would pay the jobbers money to get their sons work in the mill ... The mill worker was closely associated with his village, physically and emotionally. He would go home to cut the harvest and for sowing. The Konkani would go home to cut the paddy and the Ghati, the sugarcane. It was an accepted practice for which the mills granted leave.' |
| Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar, One Hundred Years: One Hundred Voices, 2004. |
| (a) What role did a jobber play for an industrialist? |
| (b) Name two Indian industrialists of the 19th century. |
Answer:
(a) Industrialists employed jobbers to get new recruits for them. They generally got village people jobs and provided them money in times of crisis. In exchange they demanded money and gifts and controlled the lives of the workers.
(b) The Indian industrialists were Dinshaw Petit and Janisetjee Nusserwanjee Tata.
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