Question

Explain the impact of colonial rule on the Indian textile industry ?? Of class 10 history ch the age of industrialization

Answer 1

The impact of colonial rule on the Indian textile industry

Explanation:

• The Indian textile production declined by the mid-19th century due to a variety of factors. The important reasons are as follows:
• The industrialization has led to a increase in factories and mills in England. They were afraid that Indian imports would negatively affect them. They then lobbied and persuaded the Govt for an end to the importation of cotton textiles from India and forced East India Company to encourage Indian farmers to cultivate cotton and supply cotton to the factories in Great Britain
• At the request of the East India Company, British mill cloth was also promoted on the Indian market.
• The cotton textiles from the Britain factory was much cheaper than conventional fabrics made by artisans and weavers in India and hence captured the market.
• The Indian weavers were unable to acquire cheap cotton from farmers. production of New World cotton was cut off when the civil war broke out in the United States and Britain had to rely almost exclusively on Indian crops. The supply to Indian weavers was therefore shorter and the raw cotton prices were exorbitant, which caused a major effect on the Indian textile industries in the 1860s..
• The nationalist movement in India wasn't widely spread and foreign garments and products were preferred by citizens. Only as the campaign gathered traction did people shun imported goods and clothes