Heterodox
From the late 17th century, Indian cotton textile imports – such as white calicoes, muslins, printed and striped cotton goods – flowed into Europe in ever larger volumes.Local manufacturers, seeing the lightness and superior nature of cotton, started to create new cotton textile industries.But they faced a serious problem: they could not compete with the Indian imports in terms of price or even quality (Parthasarathi 2011: 89). The centre of the world’s cotton textile production was in India...
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