Question

State the reason of decline of indian handicrafts during british rule

Answer 1

1.British goods were cheaper and easily available in the market. This made the demand for Indian handicrafts fall drastically

2.Most of the Indian handicrafts were purchased by affluent people like Nawabs,kings etc.but with coming of colonial powers these classes of people suffered finacially to buy this expensive crafts.

3.Indians were introduced to a British taste and very few people were actually interested in buying Indian goods

The Indian handicrafts that had made the country famous, collapsed under the colonial rule. This was mainly due to the competition posed by the machine made goods that were imported from Britain. ... The Britishexported raw materials from India like cotton.