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Trade Union Movement In French India Essay

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Trade Union Movement in Pondichery duringFrench India Period
An Analysis

DrAtulyaBhoi
Assistant Professor of Commerce, Tagore Arts College, Puducherry, email- atulyabhoi@gmail.com

Introduction
The industrial revolution was started in Pondicherry after the reoccupancy of French in 1816. Textile Industry was playing a major role in the socio economical and political life of the people of Pondicherry as the industry is providing a gainful employment opportunities to a large section of people in and around Pondicherry .The three Cotton Mills namely Sarvana,Bharati and Rodier were the epicenter of socio economical and political development of this region after 1828. But most of the worker wasuneducated,poor, unorganized and unaware …show more content…

Cyril Antony 1982,P.548). In 1828 the then Governor of Pondicherry had granted permission to TheophiteBlin and T. Delbruck to start a modern yarn factory in Pondicherry .This marks the beginning of industrial era in French India (Ramdas ,1990).The factory was set up where the Sarvana Mills later on established . In 1858 it was expanded to become a weaving and cloth factory. The cloth produced in this factory was exported to Senegal and Reunion. In 1902 the number of looms was 454 with a total of 17000 spindles in the mills. 2500 employees were working in Sarvana mills. Later on the mills was owned by French Company in Bordeux (France). Now mills is called as Swadeshi Cotton mills .The Rodier mills was established in 1898 by a French firm at Mudaliarpet which central office had located in London. The raw materialswere supplied from India and USA to these mills. The total number of loom was 650 with 40000 spindles. Around 2500 workers are working this mill. The old textile industry of Pondicherry reached to a new dimension of growth after the establishment of Rodier Cotton mills. Later on the mills renamed as Anglo French textile in 1924.Usine Gaebele in 1892 establish a cotton mills known as Gaeble Cottonmills in Mudaliyarpettai. The Gaeble mills was owned by Ehny . After several ownership the mills was renamed as Sri Bharati mills. In 1902 the total number of loom was 120 with 4200 spindles with 500 workers in the

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