How India Clothed the World

by Riello, Giorgio; Roy, Tirthankar; Prakash, Om (COL); Sugihara, Kaoru (COL)

• ISBN13: 9789004176539
• ISBN10: 9004176535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.

Author Biography

Giorgio Riello, Ph.D. (2002) in History, University College London, is Associate Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has published on early modern textiles, dress and fashion in Europe and Asia. Tirthankar Roy, Ph.D. (1989) in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, is a Lecturer of Economic History at London School of Economics. He has published extensively on the economic and social the textile history of the region in particular.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps	p. ix
Colour Plates	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xxix
Prologue	p. xxxi
Preface	p. xxxiii
Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850	p. 1
Regions of Exchange: Textiles in the Indian Ocean and Beyond
Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850	p. 31
Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	p. 53
English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa	p. 85
British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	p. 115
The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850	p. 139
Regions of Production: Textiles in South Asia
The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800	p. 173
Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry	p. 193
From Market-Determined to Coercion-Based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal	p. 217
The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy	p. 253
Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: Indian Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century	p. 281
Regions of Change: Indian Textiles and European Development
The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons	p. 309
The French Connection: Indian Cottons and Their Early Modern Technology	p. 347
Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800	p. 365
Quality Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade	p. 391
Historical Issues of Deindustrialization in Nineteenth-Century South India	p. 415
Glossary	p. 437
Bibliography	p. 443
Notes on Contributors	p. 473
Index	p. 477
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