Black towns were established by the European companies with in a new cities such as Bombay and Madras.' Why you think these town were established
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Chapter 6 - Towns, Traders And Craftspersons
Our Pasts - II
New Towns and Traders
In the 16th and the 17th centuries, the English, the Dutch and the French formed East India Companies in order to expand their commercial activities in the east.
Initially they faced a resistence from the local traders, but the companies soon gained control over the sea routes and forced the local traders to be their agents and emerged as the commercial and political superpower of the subcontinent.
The demand for goods like textiles increased and so the crafts of spinning, weaving, bleaching, dyeing, etc. expanded greatly as many people participated in it and the quality of the textiles improved.
But this period saw the decline of the independence of craftspersons as they now began to work on a system of advance payments which meant that they had to weave cloth which was already promised to European agents. Weavers no longer had the liberty of selling their own cloth or weaving their own patterns.
The 18th century saw the rise of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras which are major metropolitan cities today.
The crafts and commerce also underwent changes as the local or native artisans and merchants were moved to the 'black towns' (areas set up by the whites for the blacks or locals) while they occupied the superior residencies of Fort St George in Madras or Fort St William in Calcutta.
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