Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners - Coggle Diagram
Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners
The industrialization of Britain had a close connection with the conquest and colonization of India.
From the 16th century, European trading companies began buying Indian textiles for sale in Europe.
Printed cotton clothes were called chintz, cossies or khassa and bandanna.
-
The industrialisation of Britain had a close connection with the conquest and colonisation of India.
English East India Company’s interest in trade led to the occupation of territory and the pattern of trade changed over the decades.
Indian Wootz steel which was produced all over South India, fascinated European scientists. However, the Wootz steel making process was completely lost by the mid- 19th century. The reason behind this was that when the British conquered India, the imports of iron and steel from England began to displace the iron and steel produced by the crafts people in India. As a result, several iron smelters lost their job. The demand for iron produced by them inevitably lowered.
By the early 20th century, the artisans producing iron and steel faced a new competition with the coming of iron and steel factories in India.
-
Soon in 1914 First World War broke out. Steel produced in Britain now had to meet the demands of war in Europe. So imports of British steel into India declined and the Indian Railways, that was expanding at that time, turned to TISCO for supply of rails.
-
The war dragged on for several years and TISCO had to produce shells and carriage wheels for the war.
By 1919 the colonial government was buying 90% of the steel manufactured by TISCO. Over time TISCO became the biggest steel industry within the British empire.
However, Indian textiles continued to dominate world trade till the end of the 18th century. European trading companies made huge profits out of this flourishing trade.
In India, textile production was concentrated in four regions in the early 19th century — Bengal, Dacca in Eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh), regions along the Coromandel Coast and Gujarat.
However, Indian textiles began to decline with the development of cotton industries in Britain and by the beginning of the 19th century, English-made cotton textiles successfully ousted Indian goods from their traditional markets in Africa, America and Europe.
This badly affected the weavers of India. They lost their employment. Bengal weavers were the worst hit.
1720 – The British government enacted legislation banning the use of printed cotton textiles—chintz.
-
-
-
-
Chintz: It is derived from the Hindi word chintz which is a cloth with small and colourful flowery designs.
Bandanna: The word refers to any brightly coloured and printed scarf for the neck or head. Originally, the term derived from the word ‘bandhna’ and referred to a variety of brightly-coloured cloth produced through a method of tying and dying.
Spinning Jenny: A machine by which a single worker could operate several spindles on to which thread was spun. When the wheel was turned all the spindles rotated.
Charkha and takli: Household spinning instruments. The thread was spun on the charkha and rolled on the takli.
-
-