Question

Q23. Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follow [1+1+1=3]

Source A : The Age of Indian Textiles

Before the age of machine industries,silk and cotton goods from India dominated the International

market in textiles. Coarser cottons were produced in many countries, but the fi ner varieties often

came from India. Bales of fi ne textiles were carried on camel back via the north-west frontier through

mountain passes and across deserts. A vibrant sea trade operated through the main pre-colonial ports.

Source B: What Happened to Weavers

The East India Company appointed a paid-servant, the gomastha to supervise weavers, collect supplies,

and examine the quality of cloth. Company weavers were prevented from dealing with other dealers.

This was achieved through the system of advances Once an order was placed the weavers were given

loans to purchase raw material. Those who took loans had to band over the cloth they produced to the

gomastha. They could not take it to another trader.

Source C : Manchester Comes to India

As cotton industries developed in England, industrial groups began worrying about imports from other

countries. They pressurized the government to impose as on cotton textiles so that Manchester goods

could sell in Britain without facing competition from outside. At the same time industrialists persuaded

the East India Company to sell British manufactured cloth in India. Cotton weavers thus faced two

problems at the same time; their export market collapsed, and the local markets shrank, being glutted

with Manchester imports.

Source A : The Age of Indian Textiles

23 (1) Why were Indian textiles most popular the world over? (1)

Source B : What Happened to Weavers

23 (2) How were the weavers trapped by the Fast India Company to work exclusively for them? (1)

Source C : Manchester Comes to India

23 (3) State two ways in which the Industrialists at Manchester destroyed the Indian cotton industry? (1)​

Answer 1

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