how were indian textiles viewed in the world market ?


1)  With the growth of industrial production, British industrialists viewed India as a vast market for their industrial products and thus, manufactured goods from Britain began to flood India. India became the largest producer of cotton textiles as it had been renowned for their fine quality and craftsmanship.

2)  Memories of this flourishing trade of Indian weavers was preserved by means of ‘words’ which are currently used in English and other languages.

 3)  European traders encountered fine cotton cloth from India carried by Arab merchants in Mosul in present day Iraq. So they referred to these finely woven textiles as ‘muslin’

4)  When the Portuguese first came to India in search of spices, they landed in Calicut and the cotton textiles they took to Europe came to be known as ‘calico’  thus, making this word commonly denote cotton textiles in the years to come.

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 Around 1750, India was the world‟s largest producer of cotton textiles. It was renowned for its fine quality and exquisite craftsmanship. They were traded in Southeast Asia, West and Central Asia. From the sixteenth century, European trading companies began buyingIndian textiles.The popularity of Indian textiles was feared by the silk and wool makers inEngland and they protested against the import of cotton textiles. The Calico Act was enacted in England to ban the usage of printed cottontextiles in England. The Dutch, the English and the French made huge profits out of thisflourishing trade with India. They purchased cotton and silk textiles inIndia by importing silver. During the East India Company‟s rule in Calcutta, they used the revenuescollected from peasants and zamindars in India to pay for the Indian

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