How India Clothed the World

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Copyright

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Contents

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List of Figures and Maps

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Colour Plates

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List of Tables

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Prologue

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Preface

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Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850

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Part I: Regions of Exchange: Textiles in the Indian Ocean and Beyond

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Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600–1850

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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

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English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa

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British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

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The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800–1850

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Part II: Regions of Production: Textiles in South Asia

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The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500–1800

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Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry

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From Market-Determined to Coercion-Based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

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The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy

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Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: Indian Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century

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Part III: Regions of Change: Indian Textiles and European Development

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The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons

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The French Connection: Indian Cottons and Their Early Modern Technology

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Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500–1800

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Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade

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Historical Issues of Deindustrialization in Nineteenth-Century South India

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Glossary

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Bibliography

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Notes on Contributors

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Index

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