alleryClashes broke out because the new gomasthas were:
APaid less than weavers
BOutsiders to the village
CRelated to the weavers
DChosen by the weavers
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Outsiders to the village
1. Earlier supply merchants had lived in the weaving villages and helped weavers in a crisis.
2. The new gomasthas were outsiders with no long-term social link to the village.
3. They marched in with sepoys and punished weavers for delays.
_Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_
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