Caste and Race in India c10.105

c10.105

"The punishments decreed by the craft-guilds consisted in the payment of fines, or in earlier times in certain qualities of wax, or of beer or wine to be drunk at their feasts." Offences like forging led to exclusion from the guild and withdrawal of the right to practise the craft.¹ The members of each craft usually occupied the same locality. Thus in London, the weavers concentrated in Cannon Street, smiths in Smithfield, and so on. "Such a grouping must have enormously strengthened the sense of corporate life in each craft."²