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was awarded the diwani or overlordship of Bengal by the empire in 1764, it found itself short of trained administrators, especially those familiar with local custom and law. As a result, landholders were unsupervised or they reported to corrupt and indolent officials. The result was that revenues
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strictly for experimentation related to mechanical processing. The breakthrough came in 1833, when jute fibre was spun mechanically in
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preached Islam, while the
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residence. In the 1850s muslim women were not allowed to regularly visit outside of the private quarters of the residences.
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