A part from machine based industries, the 19th century also witnessed the growth of plantation industries such as tea, coffee and indigo
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When the British authorities reorganized and regulated India’s economy, they organized a modern administration system which brought an transformation and new ideas to Indian in all aspects. While there was an changing in society, the rising industrial interest also wanted to make India a big market of their goods.
An important development in the second half of the 19th century was the establishment of large-scale machine based industry in India.The machine age in India began when cotton textile, jute and coal mining industries were started in the 1850’s . The first textile mill was started in Bombay by Cowasjee Nanabhoy in 1853,and the first jute mill in Rishra(Bengal) in 1855.These industries slowly expand but continuously. In 1879, there were 56 cotton textile mills in India employing nearly 43,000 persons. In 1882, there were 20 jute mills, most of them in Bengal employing nearly 20,000 person. The coal-mining industry employed nearly one lakh of persons in 1906. Other mechanical industries which developed during the second half of the 19th and beginning of 20th century were cotton gins and presses, rice, flours and timber mills,leathertanneries, wollen textiles, sugar mills,iron and steel and such mineral industries as salt,mica and saltpeter. Cement,paper,matches, sigar and glass industries developed during the 1930’s, but these had a very stunned growth.