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What is the reason behind the decline of industry in 19 century brinly?

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Answered by ranjanalok961
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By mid-19th century, the Indian textile industry declined due to many reasons. Here are the important reasons:

1. Mills and factories increased in Britain due to industrialisation. They feared that the imports from India would affect them adversely. So they lobbied and wielded pressure on the government to stop importing cotton textiles from India and also pressurized the East India Company to urge the Indian farmers to grow cotton and supply cotton to mills in Britain.

2. The East India Company also promoted British mill cloth in Indian markets at the behest of its Board.

3. The factory made cotton textiles was far cheaper than the textiles made from traditional weavers and artisans in India and so captured the market.

4. The Indian weavers could also not gain access cheap cotton from farmers. When the American Civil War broke out, the supply of  cotton from the New World was cut-off and the British mills had to depend almost entirely on the Indian cotton growers. This created a shortage of supply to Indian weavers and the prices of raw cotton was exorbitant and so by 1860s, the Indian cotton textile industry was very hugely affected.

5. The Nationalist Movement in India was still not wide-spread and people preferred foreign clothes and goods. Only when the Nationalist Movement gained momentum, people shunned foreign goods and cloth.

Answered by rishitashukla009
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Three reasons for the decline of indian textile industries by the end of 19th century are as follows:

1)after th industrial revolution britain started producing machine made textiles which were often of better quality and cheaper than indian textiles

2)textiles from india had high demands in europe. So, british passed strict laws and banned the import of textiles in britain.

3) Also, India had no support from the colonial British government.

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