Manchester Comes to India


 
 
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Manchester Comes to India

Manchester Comes to India: In 1772, Henry Patullo, an official of the East India Company, said that the demand for Indian textiles could never reduce due to its fine quality. In 1811-12, the share of cotton textile industry was 33 per cent of India’s export; by 1850-51, it was just 3 per cent. In the 19th century, textile industries in England developed. The industrialists pressurised the government to impose import duties on cotton textiles, so that Manchester goods could sell in Britain without facing any competition.

At the same time, the industrialists persuaded the East India Company to sell British manufactures in the Indian market. At the end of the 18th century, there had been virtually no import of cotton piece-goods into India, but by the 1870s, cotton import from England was over 50 per cent of the value of Indian imports. It had a Very bad impact on the Indian market & huge problems had to faced by cotton weavers in India . 

 
 
 


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