What happened to India during the eighteenth century that caused it to lose its traditional manufacturing industries?
What will be an ideal response?
A. India's loss of traditional manufacturing industries
1. unbeatable competitiveness of mechanized textile production in Britain
a. cotton textile weaving was weakened with the disappearance of the
great courts and armies of the Mughal era that left India without the
motors of demand that once drove its economy
b. British made matters worse, bureaucratizing tax collection, cutting
out Indian capitalists
c. industrialization elsewhere lowered prices for Indian products
d. export of labor to work on construction projects or plantations
elsewhere in the British Empire
2. British wrecked India's industries to boost their own
a. low-cost machinery of British cotton mills pulverized high-cost Indian
manufactures
b. British set tariffs to favor their own exports
c. British firms effectively monopolized India's shipping, insurance, and
international banking
d. India became a producer of raw materials for the British Empire: tea,
coffee, quinine, opium, jute, cotton
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