Question

impact of colonisation on the handloom workers and industry

Answer 1

British were a part of Europe and Europe had long back gotten through the industrial resolution. Now India had lots of resources: cotton, indigo, spices etc. So, when they colonized India, they started to use India's resources as it was more cheap. The thing is producers usually want to produce in the cheapest way possible, so they took away the resources for free and starting producing them at more cheaper costs quickly(due to machines) whereas the handloom workers and industry produced them slowly and was more expensive. So, less people bought from the indian industry...

Answer 2

Answer:

The impact of colonial rule on the hand loom and other industries was very much destructive. from ancient times textile of India attracted european traders,particularly cotton textile was world famous. The Bengal presidency from where the British started their colonial expansion, was very much enriched in cotton textiles. Karl Marx in one of his writing in 1853 described India as the "home land of cotton". On the other side, Due to Industrial revolution Factories and industries were flourished in europe and this in turn resulted the advent of large market of cotton textile in europe. Manchester of Britain became the main centre of texttile Industries. But, as India was the 'home land of cotton' as Karl Marx described, the British colonial power first ttargetedthe hhand loomindustries. The weavers were forced to weave cloths without out profits for their lively hood. It is said that the weavers to get rid from colonial torture, had cut their main finger. Destruction of the then rich  hand loom industries was one of the main reason of worst ever famine of  Bengal presidency when a few  lacs of people were killed for want of food. During the prime stage of colonial rule the weavers and handlomm workers were the worst suffer.Hand loomtextilee was the main industries then. Same was the case for other industries also. historically, modern industries replaces small and cottage industries. But the British colonial power to guard their own interest

did not industrialise India's domestic industries and on the other hand they destroyed the indigenous industries to make India a market for theproductt produced by their factories.

Similar was the case for other industries

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