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What were the effect of decline of Indian textile in the world market on Indian Weavers |
| Answer» \tExports declined and import of textiles increased. That is, the Indian textile manufactures could neither sell their goods outside India nor could they sell their goods inside India.\tImport of English textiles into India increased from 31 % to 50 %.\tAs imported machine –made textiles was cheaper, the Indian weavers could not compete with it.\tRaw cotton from India was exported to feed the Cotton mills of England and the Indian textile industry was without enough raw materials.\tSoon mechanised textile mill were also set up in India and the hand -weavers were virtually without any work. | |