Question

Indian textile designs became
decline of the independence of craftspersons. They now
began to work on a system of advances which meant
that they had to weave cloth which was already
promised to European agents. Weavers no longer had
own patterns. They had to reproduce the designs
supplied to them by the Company agents.
the liberty of selling their own cloth or weaving their
The eighteenth century saw the rise of Bombay,
Calcutta and Madras, which are nodal cities today.
Crafts and commerce underwent major changes as
merchants and artisans (such as weavers) were moved
into the Black Towns established by the European
companies within these new cities. The "blacks" or
native traders and craftspersons were confined here
while the "white" rulers occupied the superior
residencies of Fort St. George in Madras or Fort St.
William in Calcutta. The story of crafts and commerce
in the eighteenth century will be taken up next year.
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