Pre and post independence entrepreneurial development and culture in india
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Pre-independence of Indian Entrepreneurial Culture
In the pre-independence era of India the elaborated caste-based diversion of workers
consisted of farmers and artisans. These artisan industries flourished over the period because the
Royal Patronage was available to support them. On the whole, perfection in art and appeal to the
eye of the individual were the distinguishing qualities inherent in the Indian craftsmanship that
brought many everlasting laurels of name and fame to the illustrious India in the past. To highlights,
Lucknow popularized for chintzes, Ahmedabad for dupttas and dhotis, Nagpur for silk-bordered
cloths, Kashmir for shawls, and Banaras for metal wares. Thus, from the time immemorial till the
earlier years of the eighteenth century, India enjoyed the prestigious status of the queen of the
international trade with the help of its handicrafts. The advent of East India Company implemented
the system of exporting raw materials which were available in India and importing the finished
goods. Particularly, the Parsis recognized good connection with the Company and they were much
unbiased by the Company’s business operations. The Company established its first ship-building
industry in Surat where from 1673 onwards the Parsis built vessels for the Company. The most
important was shipwright Lowjee and Nushirvan, who migrated to Mumbai around 1935. He
belongs to a Wadia family which gave beginning to many leading ship-builders of Mumbai. On the
basis of these facts, it can be stated that the East India Company made some contribution towards
entrepreneurial growth in India. But, whether the company did it deliberately for the growth of
entrepreneurship in India or it was just a concurrence that people came in contact with the
Company and entered the manufacturing entrepreneurship. The actual emergence of
manufacturing entrepreneurship can be noticed in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Ranchhodlal Chhotalal (1823–1898) was a pioneer of the textile industry in Ahmadabad
India. He was awarded the title of Rao Bahadur by the British Government. He was born in a Nagar
Brahmin family, was the first Indian to think of setting up the textile manufacturing on the modern
factory lines in 1847, but failed. In his second attempt, he succeeded in setting up a textile mill in
1861 at Ahmadabad. But before this, the first cotton textile manufacturing unit was already set up
by a Parsi, Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar in Mumbai in 1854 followed by Nawrosjee Wadia, who
opened his textile mill in Mumbai in 1880. The credit for the expansion of textile industries up to
1915 goes to the Parsis. Out of ninety six textile mills existing in 1915, around fifty percent of textile
mills belong to Parsis and rest of the fifty percent belong to Hindu, Muslim and British citizens.
Later, the Parsis entered to other fields, mainly iron and steel industry. Jamsetji Nusserwanji
Tata 1839-1904 was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest
conglomerate company. He was born to Parsi Zoroastrian family in Navsari state of Baroda.
In the pre-independence era of India the elaborated caste-based diversion of workers
consisted of farmers and artisans. These artisan industries flourished over the period because the
Royal Patronage was available to support them. On the whole, perfection in art and appeal to the
eye of the individual were the distinguishing qualities inherent in the Indian craftsmanship that
brought many everlasting laurels of name and fame to the illustrious India in the past. To highlights,
Lucknow popularized for chintzes, Ahmedabad for dupttas and dhotis, Nagpur for silk-bordered
cloths, Kashmir for shawls, and Banaras for metal wares. Thus, from the time immemorial till the
earlier years of the eighteenth century, India enjoyed the prestigious status of the queen of the
international trade with the help of its handicrafts. The advent of East India Company implemented
the system of exporting raw materials which were available in India and importing the finished
goods. Particularly, the Parsis recognized good connection with the Company and they were much
unbiased by the Company’s business operations. The Company established its first ship-building
industry in Surat where from 1673 onwards the Parsis built vessels for the Company. The most
important was shipwright Lowjee and Nushirvan, who migrated to Mumbai around 1935. He
belongs to a Wadia family which gave beginning to many leading ship-builders of Mumbai. On the
basis of these facts, it can be stated that the East India Company made some contribution towards
entrepreneurial growth in India. But, whether the company did it deliberately for the growth of
entrepreneurship in India or it was just a concurrence that people came in contact with the
Company and entered the manufacturing entrepreneurship. The actual emergence of
manufacturing entrepreneurship can be noticed in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Ranchhodlal Chhotalal (1823–1898) was a pioneer of the textile industry in Ahmadabad
India. He was awarded the title of Rao Bahadur by the British Government. He was born in a Nagar
Brahmin family, was the first Indian to think of setting up the textile manufacturing on the modern
factory lines in 1847, but failed. In his second attempt, he succeeded in setting up a textile mill in
1861 at Ahmadabad. But before this, the first cotton textile manufacturing unit was already set up
by a Parsi, Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar in Mumbai in 1854 followed by Nawrosjee Wadia, who
opened his textile mill in Mumbai in 1880. The credit for the expansion of textile industries up to
1915 goes to the Parsis. Out of ninety six textile mills existing in 1915, around fifty percent of textile
mills belong to Parsis and rest of the fifty percent belong to Hindu, Muslim and British citizens.
Later, the Parsis entered to other fields, mainly iron and steel industry. Jamsetji Nusserwanji
Tata 1839-1904 was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest
conglomerate company. He was born to Parsi Zoroastrian family in Navsari state of Baroda.
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