 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1853 - 544 pages
...actually export our cotton manufactures to supply a part of the consumption of our Asiatic possessions. India is thus reduced from the state of a manufacturing, to that of an agricultural country ; but are we content to stop here ? Are we content to exchange our manufactures for the produce of... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1902 - 222 pages
...export our cotton manufactures to supply a part •of the consumption -of our Asiatic possessions. India is thus reduced from the state of a 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... | |
 | Fred Bohn Fisher, Gertrude Marvin Williams - 1919 - 240 pages
...hitherto her staple product, have not only been displaced, but we are exporting cotton into India. India is thus reduced from the state of a manufacturing to that of an agricultural country." British goods imported into India were taxed only 3^2 per cent. In a few years and through a process... | |
 | Pestonji Ardesir Wadia, Gulabbhai Naranji Joshi - 1925 - 460 pages
...actually export our cotton manufactures to supply a part of consumption of our Asiatic possessions. India is thus reduced from the state of a manufacturing to that of an agricultural country."1 The shipping industry of India followed suit ; Indian ships were displaced by the British... | |
 | Ishwara Topa - 1928 - 200 pages
...the late Director of the East India Company — Henry St. George Tucker. "India is", wrote Tucker, "thus reduced from the state of a manufacturing to that of an agricultural country; but are we content to stop here ?Are we content to exchange our manufactures for the produce of its... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 2000 - 466 pages
...actually export our cotton manufactures to supply a part of the consumption of our Asiatic possessions. India is thus reduced from the state of a manufacturing to that of an agricultural country." l Still more emphatic is the impartial verdict of HH Wilson, historian of India. "It is also a melancholy... | |
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... a duty of 67 per cent., but chiefly from the effect of superior machinery, the cotton fabrics, which hitherto constituted the staple of India, have not only been displaced in this country, but we actually export our cotton manufactures to supply a... 