Four Centuries Of Decline? Understanding The Changing Structure Of The South Indian Textile Industry

Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the 'first globalization'. A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy

Ancient history · Archaeology · Capital (architecture) · Capital good · Circulation (fluid dynamics) · Commodity · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Goods and services · Market economy · Political science · Politics · South asia · Textile · Textile industry · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Japanese History and Culture

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  Open Access•Nandita Saikia•SSRN Electronic Journal•2026

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• A colonização britânica e o declínio da produção de juta indiana

  Open Access•Aldenor Da Silva Ferreira, Alfredo Kingo Oyama Homma et al.•Fronteiras•2019

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• The Sociotechnical System of Silk Weaving in Bishnupur Region in West Bengal

  Open Access•Abhradip Banerjee, Gopalkrishna Chakrabarti•Journal of South Asian Development•2022

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