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The Indian Cotton Textile Industry. Its Past Present and Future

1930

The salvation of the Indian ills lies not in internal cut-throat competition but in presenting a united front against Lancashire and ultimately wresting from it the supremacy which it holds."As is evident from the bibliography the author of the present work has done laborious research into the subject and has thrown a flood of light on the vicissitudes of the industry in the past by his having [...] 1200 B. C. and accepting even the view that the cotton industry in India is later than the Vedas the authentic account of the industry mentioned in the later Sanskrit records show that the industry did exist in 800 B. C. The Mahabharata Ramayana and the Puranas are full of references to the cotton goods. [...] The earliest records of the history of the people fringing upon the shores of the Southern. [...] Pliny also refers to muslins and Indian calicoes and describes them as 'of superior excellence' This shows the advanced stage of the industry at the beginning of the first century A. D. Unhappily no writer can be found who effectually bridges over the gap between the period of the "Natural History" and that of the physicians who wrote in the 7th to 10th centuries. [...] The hand of the Hindu therefore constitutes an organ adapted to the finest operations of the loom in a degree which is almost or altogether peculiar to himself."' Baines holds a similar opinion :- "It is then a physical organization in the natives admirably suited to the processes of spinning and weaving; to the possession of the raw material in the greatest abundance; to the possession also o
commerce industry
Pages
160
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141799
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-x M.P. Gandhi view
Chapter I.Early History
1-7 unknown view
Chapter II.The State of the Industry under the Moguls
8-16 unknown view
Chapter III.Industrial Organization up to the Mogul period
17-24 unknown view
Chapter IV.East India Company’s Trade Policy and its Effect on the Cotton Industry (up to 1757)
25-34 unknown view
Chapter V.The State and Decline of the Cotton Industry under Early British Rule
35-51 unknown view
Chapter VI.The Cotton Mill Industry(Up to Pre-War Times.)
52-75 unknown view
Chapter VII.Cultivation of Cotton in India
76-81 unknown view
Chapter VIII.The Hand-Loom Weaving Industry
82-94 unknown view
Chapter IX.The Post-War Cotton-Mill Industry
95-124 unknown view
Appendix The development of the Japanese Cotton Industry in Japan and China
125-127 unknown view
Index
i-iv unknown view
Bibliography
v-viii unknown view
Backmatter
i-xv unknown view

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