DADNI SYSTEM
During the 17th and 18th c,the bulk of cotton textiles production was organised on the basis of agreement among the merchants,merchant-middlemen and weavers,specifying details such as the quantity,the quality,the price and the date of delivery.A substantial part of the final value of the contract was usually offered in advance to weavers to purchase raw materials and to maintain his family expenditure during the period of production.Advances were made either in cash or in raw materials.This system of production organisation is termed as DADNI or CONTRACT or ADVANCE SYSTEM.Dadni system was an all india phenomenon except madrass.Its origin can perhaps be traced to the ideas of islamic law.Dadni was paid in installments and often paid in cash and only a part of it by bills of debt.European companies too paid dadni to secure their investments.
The Dadni system was a way of business management for East India Company in the eighteenth century Bengal. The company used to engagelocal merchants to procure goods from the market on its behalf. They were called dadni-merchants, because they received advances from the company for delivering goods under stipulated terms. Dadni comes fromthe Persian word dadan or advance.
ReplyDeleteChamparan satyagraha is also related to DADNI system.
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Kamiyonti system in Bihar & orrisa
Tinkathiya system in Bihar & Bengal
Dadni system was used by european merchants during 18th century.Dadni is actually a kind of advance money paid to the farmers by the european merchants before the advent of the season to secure that others would not able to get it.
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