Question

certain groups of Indian rivers were in better position than others to survive the competition with the mill industry explain? class 10

Answer 1

The following points may help you:

a. Small scale industries survived despite Industrialisation in the post first world era because of technological changes introduced by handicrafts people, which helped them in expanding production and bringing about improvement in their methods of production.
b.Weavers for instance used looms with a fly shuttle which increased speed and pace of production, reduced demand for labour. 
c.It helped them in expanding overall productivity in a cost  effective manner.
d. The demand for hand made goods, more or less remained stable, rich continued to buy such products even during crisis. Those weavers who produced fine quality were still in a better position.
e. The demand for finer variety by the rich remained stable.
f. The demand for certain products like Banarsi, Baluchari saris or lungis from Madras could not be easily replaced by machine made cloth
g. Those who produced coarse cloth however, were badly effected as they mainly catered to the poor and its demand fluctuated.
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Answer 2

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1. Certain groups of weavers were in a better position to survive finishing with mill industries than others. Some produced course cloth among weavers while others woven finer varieties.

2. The demand the well had bought for the finest varieties to do was more stable. And when the poor were hungry, the wealthy might afford those.

3. The sale of banarasi or baluchari saris had no effect on the famines.

4. In fact, mills have been unable to mimic advanced Weavers.

5. Saris with woven borders or the popular madras lungis and handkerchief could not be easily displayed by mill manufacture.