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The Agarias are a community of iron smelters. They are specialised in the craft of iron smelting. In the late 19th century a series of famines devasta...
The first cotton mill in India was set up as a spinning mill in Bombay in 1854. By 1900, over 84 mills started operating in Bombay. Mills were set up ...
This was because some types of cloths could not be supplied by machines. Just take the examples of saris with intricate borders and cloths with tradit...
The process of cloth making consists of two stages: The first stage of production was spinning, Le. work done mostly by women. The charkha and the...
Weavers often belonged to communities that specialised in weaving. Their skills were passed on from one generation to the next. List of some communi...
Textile production was concentrated in the following four regions in the early 19th century: Bengal was one of the most important centres. Located...
Textile industries had just emerged in England in the early 18th century. So, it was difficult for the English producers to compete with Indian text...
India was the largest producer of cotton textiles in the world before the British conquered Bengal around 1750. Indian textiles had long been renowned...
Piece goods were usually woven cloth pieces that were 20 yards long and 1 yard wide.
Bellows were used to keeping the charcoal burning.
The furnaces were made of clay and sun-dried bricks.
There are two reasons for it: The sword and armour making industry died with the conquest of India by the British. Imports of iron and steel from...
Tipu’s sword was made of Wootz steel. Wootz steel when made into swords produced a very sharp edge that could easily rip through the opponent’s armour...
They began to produce cloth for military supplies.
They got work in the mills.
Khadi became a symbol of nationalism.
During the national movement Mahatma Gandhi urged people to boycott imported textiles and use hand-spun and hand-woven cloth.
Charkha and takli.
European trading companies purchased cotton and silk textiles in India by importing silver.
Masulipatnam and Andhra Pradesh.