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What are the advantages of associated with Ahmedabad as a site of cotton mills

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Advantages of associated with Ahmedabad as a site of cotton mills were:
  • Ahmadabad is clled ‘Manchester of India’
  • It has proximity to cotton growing regions helped in the development of the textile industry
  • The flat topography and easy accessibility of land helped in the establishment of the mills.
  • The thickly populated states of Gujarat and Maharashtra offers skilled and semi-skilled labour
  • At present several textile mills have closed down due to the emergence of new textile centres in the country

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This is one of the oldest industries. Till the industrial revolution in the 18th century, manual labour was used for making cotton cloths. After the industrial revolution, power looms replaced handlooms and it helped in expansion of cotton textiles industry. The expansion of cotton textiles industry first took place in Britain and then in other parts of the world.

At present; India, China, Japan and USA are the major producers of cotton textiles.

Indian cotton textiles were in great demand because of their fine quality and craftsmanship. The Muslins of Dhaka, Chintzes of Masulipatnam, Calicos of Calicut and Gold-wrought cotton Burhanpur, Surat and Vadodara were very popular around the world.

But after the industrial revolution in Britain, the Indian cotton textiles could not compete with machine made cloths from Britain.

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