THE AGE OF INDIAN TEXTILES Let us now move to India to see how a colony industrialises. Once again we will look not only at factory industries but also at the non-mechanised sector. We will limit o
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WHAT HAPPENED TO WEAVERS? The consolidation of East India Company power after the 1760s did not initially lead to a decline in textile exports from India. British cotton industries had not yet expa
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MANCHESTER COMES TO INDIA In 1772, Henry Patullo, a Company official, had ventured to say that the demand for Indian textiles could never reduce since no other nation produced goods of the same qua
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