Cotton Textile Industry India: Production, Growth and Issues
Growth and Development: India held world monopoly in the manufacturing of cotton textiles for approximately 3,000 years from about B.C. 1500 to A.D. 1500. At the middle ages, Indian cotton textile products were in need in the Eastern and European markets. The muslins of Dhaka, chintzes of Masulipatnam, calicos of Calicut, baftas of Cambay and gold-wrought cotton piece goods of Burhanpur, Surat and Vadodara acquired a global celebrity by virtue of their design and quality. This industry could not survive in the face of strong competition from the modern mill industry of Britain , which provided better and cheap goods as a result of Industrial Revolution in this country. Moreover, the textile industry appreciated advantage. The very first telescope cotton textile mill was put up in 1818 in Fort Glaster close Kolkata. However, this mill couldn't endure and had to be closed down. The first successful modem cotton textile mill was established in Mumbai in 1854 by a neighborhoo