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Historical Event on 3/17/1769
To establish the business of English Mill's Cloth, East Indiian Company had imposed various restriction on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and 'malmal' industry.
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