During British rule, the Government of East Bengal and Assam laid stress on a comprehensive scheme of industrial development of the province. Though both the parts possessed vast potentialities, these remained unexploited nor the people has shown necessary aptitude or enterprise for their utilization. Consequently, indigenous industries continued to be conducted in their wasteful and archaic method and the people were content with old order of things. With the growth of population and particularly the emergence of the middle class in the…