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The cotton textile industry was responsible for a large part of the empire's international trade. [16] Bengal had a 25% share of the global textile trade in the early 18th century. [17] Bengal cotton textiles were the most important manufactured goods in world trade in the 18th century, consumed across the world from the Americas to Japan. [14]
The cotton textile industry was responsible for a large part of the empire's international trade. [26] India had a 25% share of the global textile trade in the early 18th century. [27] Indian cotton textiles were the most important manufactured goods in world trade in the 18th century, consumed across the world from the Americas to Japan. [28]
Britain eventually surpassed India as the world's leading cotton textile manufacturer in the 19th century. [44] India's cotton-processing sector changed during EIC expansion in India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. From focusing on supplying the British market to supplying East Asia with raw cotton. [50]
India was one of the first places where cotton was cultivated and used even as early as 2500 BCE during the Harappan era. The remnants of the ancient Indian clothing can be found in the figurines discovered from the sites near the Indus Valley civilisation , the rock-cut sculptures , the cave paintings , and human art forms found in temples and ...
Muslin from "India" is mentioned in the book Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, authored by an anonymous Egyptian merchant around 2,000 years ago, it was appreciated by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and the fabled fabric was the pinnacle of European fashion in the 18th and 19th century. Production ceased sometime in the late 19th century, as the ...
The cotton produced from the high-quality cotton seeds of East Bengal was of much better quality than the local cotton of Shantipur. [14] The fabric produced from this new variety of cotton was known as mulmul or Shantipuri mulmul. During the 15th–16th centuries, fabric was woven in Shantipur using 250–300 count fine yarn.
Greco-Roman merchants imported finer cotton in large quantities to the Roman Empire. In medieval times, cotton textiles were imported to Rome through the maritime Silk Road. Arabian-Surat merchants traded cotton textiles to Basra and Baghdad from three areas of Gujarat, the Coromandel Coast and the East Coast of India.
Jointly, Tata mills were one of big producers of cotton textiles in India until the 1980s. The four mills of Tata Textiles produced about 150 million metres of cotton and other cloth annually in 1972, having 325,000 spindles and 6845 looms.