Question

What led to the decline of indian textile industries?

Answer 1

As the industrialisation in Britain started the britishers stopped Indian textile supply to Britain to support their own textile industries
. now British want raw material so they imported it from India. Now they want a market to sell their textile, they started importing British textile to India which was much cheaper than Indian textile. So there was a decline in use of expensive Indian textile and increase in use of cheap British textile. After some time the most Indian textile industries shutted down and there's a decline in Indian textile industries

Answer 2

Factors led to the decline of Indian textile industry are
:1) Britishers had launched new cheap textile machine in India market to make the clothes for sell in market. Indian cotton textiles could not compete with goods produced in mass scale by British machine.
:2) British Plays political control to reduce india
level exporters of raw materials (e.g: indigo, cotton) and importers of finished goods.