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Even before factories began to appear on the landscape of England and Europe, there was a large scale industrial production for an international marke...
a. False b. True c. False d. True
(a) The European companies were gaining power by securing a variety of concessions from the local courts. It was very difficult for the Indian merchan...
(a) James Hargreaves designed the Spinning Jenny in 1764. This machine speeded up the spinning process and reduced the demand for labour. By the use o...
The early entrepreneurs made their fortune through China trade.
Handloom cloth production increased in the early 20th century due to new technology like looms with flying shuttle.
The upper middle class in Europe is called the bourgeoisie.
The Indian manufacturers tried to convey the message through advertisements that if you cared for the nation then buy Indian goods.
The labels carrying images of gods and goddesses gave divine approval to the goods being sold so that they appear somewhat familiar to Indian people.
The label made the company’s name familiar to the buyers and also acted as the mark of quality.
They took the help of advertisement and tried to expand their market.
It helped weavers to operate large looms and weave large pieces of cloth that increased the handloom production.
Dwarkanath Tagore
The British in India began exporting opium to China and took tea from China to England. Many Indians participated in this trade, provided finance, pro...
Britain turned to India for cotton supplies by 1860s as American civil war cut off the cotton supplies from US.
Henry Patullo was an East India Company official. He said that demand for Indian textile could never reduce, because no country produced goods of the ...
To supervise weavers, collect supplies and examine the quality of cloth.
Monopoly of trade is the practice in which a country develops a system of management and control, eliminating competition, control costs, ensure regul...
British cotton industries had not yet expanded and the Indian textiles were in great demand in Europe.