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Which statement best describes the Indian textile industry under British Imperial rule?

Homespun dhoti were a popular fashion trend that allowed Indian textiles to remain in steady demand.


Indian cotton replaced U.S. cotton as a cash crop for Britain, causing demand for Indian textiles to increase.


The British lost economic interest in the textile industry, decreasing worldwide demand for Indian cotton textiles.


British machine-made textiles replaced Indian handmade textiles and the Indian textile industry declined.

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the third one is correct:)
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Answer:

  • The British lost economic interest in the textile industry, decreasing worldwide demand for Indian cotton textiles.

Step-by-step explanation:

Amid the war, cotton could never again be sent out to the remote markets and those nations, especially Japan, set up their very own industrial facilities.

Not exclusively were these nations delivering their very own material, they were doing it more inexpensively than Britain.

By 1933 Japan had presented 24 hour cotton generation and turned into the world's biggest cotton maker.

The interest for British cotton drooped and factory proprietors put cotton specialists on brief time, or shut the plants by and large.

In the middle of the wars, 345,000 specialists left the business and 800 factories closed.

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