Question

“In the 20th century, handloom cloth production in India expanded steadily: almost trebling between 1900 and 1940.” How did this happen?

Answer 1

bcoz handloom clothes were very soft and easy to wash. and most of the orthodox people like handloom clothes and not factory manufactured clothes.

Answer 2

For the following reasons hand-loom cloth production in India expanded steadily:  

1. the producers of handicraft adopted a new technology, that helped to improve the production at almost the same costs.

2. Weavers by the second half of the Twentieth century began using machines with a fly shuttle. Around 35 per cent of the total hand-looms of India installed the fly shuttles by 1941.  

3. The advent of new technology increased productivity per worker and thus led to a reduction in the demand for labor.