ঔপনিবেশিক বাঙ্গালিসকল ব্রিটিশ পূর্ব বাংলায় তাঁতিদের স্বাধীনতা এবং আর্থিক অবস্থা সম্বন্ধে শুনুন সুশীল চৌধুরীর মন্তব্য -

he weaver in the precolonial period retained the ownership of his means of production - his loom, bought his own yarn independently and at least in theory was the owner of his product.

...there is little doubt however that the weaver was in a much better position during this· period than he was in the post-Plassey period. Whatever freedom or bargaining power he had enjoyed earlier, he lost them completely in the second half of the eighteenth century.under the repressive and exploitative machinery of the Company and its servants who were assisted in the process by their Indian gomastas.

- Sushil Chaudhury, From Prosperity to Decline: Eighteenth Century Bengal