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1. Before the age of Industrialization, Indian silk and cotton goods from India dominated the international market in textiles as no other country produced the same quality of fabric as produced in India. India naturally excelled at fine quality cotton production due to its highly skilled weavers.
2.Coarser quality cotton were produced in many countries, but the finer varieties came from India. Armenian and Persian merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, eastern Persia and Central Asia. Bales of fine textiles were carried on camel back via the north-eastern frontier, through mountain passes and across deserts.
3.A vibrant sea trade operated through the main pre-colonial ports. Surat connected India to the gulf and Red sea ports, Masulipatam and Hoogly had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
4.A variety of Indian merchants and bankers were involved in this trade- financing production, carrying goods and supplying exporters. Supply merchants linked the port towns to the inland regions.
5.The inland merchants merchants gave advances to the weavers, procured the woven cloth from weaving villages, and carried the supply to the ports.At the port, the big shippers and export merchants had brokers who negotiated the price and bought goods from the supply merchants operating inland.