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Bombay and Calcutta
The European companies became powerful by securing a variety of concessions from local courts and the monopoly rights to trade. Leading to the decline...
Surat connected India to the Gulf and Red Sea Ports.
Surat eminent pre-colonial port.
Silk and cotton
James Hargreaves
Because countries like America had shortage of labour.
Gas works, breweries and dockyards
Machines reduced the requirement of human labour and inferred large capital investment.
A traditional craftsperson and labourer who did not operate machines.
Food processing, building, pottery, glass work tanning, furniture making and production of implements.
Cotton and Iron and steel industries
Richard Arkwright
Carding is a process in which fibres, such as cotton or wool, are prepared before spinning.
Cotton became the first symbol of the new era in England in the late 18th century.
London was known as finishing centre.
A person who fulls or gathers a cloth by pleating is known as fuller.
A stapler is a person who sorts wool according to its fibre.
Associations of traders and merchants that trained crafts people, maintained control over production and regulated prices.