Before the age of machine industries silk cotton goods from india dominated the international market in textiles how this situation had entirely change during colonization
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There has always been a heavy demand of textiles of India in the international market.Cotton textiles made huge profit as the clothes made out of cotton were comfortable to wear. Moreover, the finish of the hand-made cotton products were good and attracted more customers abroad.
Armenian and persian took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan , Eastern Persia and Central Asia . Bales of fine textiles were carried on camel back by the Northwest frontier passes and across desert in North West frontiers operator through the main pre-colonial ports . Surat on Gujarat coast connected India to the gulf the red sea ports ; masulipatnam on the coromandel cause and hooghly in Bengal had trade link with South East Asian ports . A variety of Indian merchants and bankers where are involved in this network of export rates financial production , carrying goods and supplying exporters . Supply merchants link the port towns to the inland regions . They gave advances to the Weaver's, procured the woolen cloth from the villages and carried the supply to the ports. At the port big shippers and export merchants and had brokers to negotiate the price and brought goods from the supply merchants operating inland