imagine you are the textile weaver in 19th century india. textiles produced in indian factories are flooding the markets. how would you adjusted to the situation?
The following points may help you:
a. Following industralisation when British machine made goods, and also textile produced in Indian Factories started flooding the market, Indian weavers very badly affected as they faced fierce competition from machine made goods.
b. However, weavers tried to adjust and made certain changes by improvng methods of production which helped them in expanding production.
c. The demand for hand made goods, more or less remained stable, rich continued to buy such products.
d. The coarse cloth continued to be produced by weavers to be used by poor.
e. The demand for certain products like Banarsi, Baluchari saris or lungis from Madras could not be easily replaced by machine made cloth.
f. But yes, some of the weavers became agricultural labourers , migrated to cities in serach of better job opportunities.
g. Some went to Africa to work in plantations, to adjust to the new situation.
h. They also started working in new cotton mills in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Nagpur and Kanpur.
a. Following industralisation when British machine made goods, and also textile produced in Indian Factories started flooding the market, Indian weavers very badly affected as they faced fierce competition from machine made goods.
b. However, weavers tried to adjust and made certain changes by improvng methods of production which helped them in expanding production.
c. The demand for hand made goods, more or less remained stable, rich continued to buy such products.
d. The coarse cloth continued to be produced by weavers to be used by poor.
e. The demand for certain products like Banarsi, Baluchari saris or lungis from Madras could not be easily replaced by machine made cloth.
f. But yes, some of the weavers became agricultural labourers , migrated to cities in serach of better job opportunities.
g. Some went to Africa to work in plantations, to adjust to the new situation.
h. They also started working in new cotton mills in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Nagpur and Kanpur.