...admission of a cheap article, in place of protecting by heavy duties a dearer one of home manufacture. It is also a melancholy instance of the wrong done to India by the country on which she had become dependent. It was staled in evidence that the cotton and silk goods of India up to this...

...in cotton goods with India, serve to illustrate the latter part of the foregoing extract :— 'It is a melancholy instance of the ' wrong done to India by the country on ' which she had become dependent. It 'was stated in evidence that the ' cotton and silk goods of India, up to '...

...happened to the weavers has also happened to the other industrial classes. The production of lac * ' It is also a melancholy instance of the wrong done...she has become dependent. It was stated in evidence (1S13) that the cotton and silk goods of India up to the period could be sold for a profit in the British...

...manufacturing to •that of an agricultural country." 1^ Still more emphatic is the impartial verdict' of H, H. Wilson, the historian of India. "It is also a melancholy...has become dependent. It was stated in evidence [in 1^13] that the cotton and silk goods of India up to the period could be sold for a profit in the British...

...plough, and has crushed many of the minor handicrafts." That eminent historian, HH Wilson, says : " It is also a melancholy instance of the wrong done to India by the country on which she had become dependent. It was stated in evidence that the cotton and silk goods of India up to this...

...admission of a cheap article, in place of protecting by heavy duties a dearer one of home manufacture. It is also a melancholy instance of «the wrong done to India by the country on which she had become dependent. It was stated in evidence that the cotton and silk goods of India up to this...

...As Horace Wilson vividly describes it: "The history of the trade of cotton cloths with India.. .is.. .a melancholy instance of the wrong done to India by the country on which she had become dependent.... Had no such prohibitory duties and decrees existed, the mills of Paisley and...

...England. The technological innovations followed. As HH Wilson, a professor of history at Oxford, wrote: It was stated in evidence in 1813 that the cotton and silk goods of India up to this period could be sold in the British market at a price 50 to 60 per cent lower than those fabricated...