Why did money lenders and traders …

a. The traders were keen on buying forest produce from the tribals, offering them cash , loans and also offered them to work for wages.
b. The traders who purchased goods from the tribals offered and gave very less price to them.
c. They further sold the products at higher prices, making huge amount of profits.
d. In this way the traders indulged in massive exploitation of the tribals.
e. We may give example of silk, as to how santhal tribes were paid meagerly while the traders prospered.
f. Such was the problem that tribal groups faced with the traders, who considered them as their enemies.
g. Likewise, moneylenders offered loans to tribals to meet their requirement for cash to produce goods , but they charged high rate interest from them. Thus, tribals faced the problem of repaying the loans and were burdened with huge debts. This became the cause for their terrible plight and misery.