This study is concerned with the organizational changes that took place in the production of cotton textiles in Bengal in the latter half of the eighteenth century. It attempts to relate these to changes in the life and conditions of the artisans who supplied the East India Company's investment, particularly from 1750 to 1813. The work draws largely on newly discovered eighteenth-century Bengali manuscripts in the India Office Library and other contemporary sources to put forward new reasons for the decline of the weaving industry in the period under review. Readership: scholars and students of Indian history and the history of textiles.
- ISBN10 0195620437
- ISBN13 9780195620436
- Publish Date 8 September 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2010
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 228
- Language English