How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850 Book

List of Figures and Maps ix

Colour Plates xiii

List of Tables xxix

Prologue xxxi

Preface xxxiii

Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850 Giorgio Riello Tirthankar Roy 1

Part 1 Regions of Exchange: Textiles in the Indian Ocean and Beyond

Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850 Anthony Reid 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 Pedro Machado 53

English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa Joseph E. Inikori 85

British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries H. V. Bowen 115

The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850 Kaoru Sugihara 139

Part II Regions of Production: Textiles in South Asia

The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800 David Washbrook 173

Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry Ian C. Wendt 193

From Market-Determined to Coercion-Based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal Om Prakash 217

The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy Lakshmi Subramanian 253

Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: Indian Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century Bishnupriya Gupta 281

Part III Regions of Change: Indian Textiles and European Development

The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European CottonsGiorgio Riello 309

The French Connection: Indian Cottons and Their Early Modern Technology George Bryan Souza 347

Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800 Beverly Lemire 365

Quality Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade Maxine Berg 391

Historical Issues of Deindustrialization in Nineteenth-Century South India Prasannan Parthasarathi 415

Glossary 437

Bibliography 443

Notes on Contributors 473

Index 477