Labour:

Labour: Policy behind labour ants was only another at- tempt to curtail the progress of Indian Industry. Labour legislations whose genuine motive were to improve the condition of the workers, could not have lost sight of the plantation labour while vigorously trying to apply the labour laws in the cotton and Jute factories in India. The motive in fact was not to help labour, but to discourage the growth of industries and especially cotton industry which was shaping into a bid rival for Lancashire and Manchester. The purview of the factory legislation did not extend towards the indigo planters under whom cultivators were practically treated like slaves.