The Age Of Industrialisation

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The Age Of Industrialisation by Mind Map: The Age Of Industrialisation

1. Factories Come up

1.1. The Early Entrepreneurs

1.1.1. Dwarkanath Tagore

1.1.2. Jamesetjee Nusserwanjee Tata

1.1.3. Dinshaw Petit

1.1.4. Seth Hukumchand

1.1.5. G.D Birla

1.2. Where Did The Workers Come From?

1.2.1. In most industrial regions workers came from the districts around. Peasants and artisans who found no work in the villages went to the industrial centres n search of work.

2. Market For Goods

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2.1.1. By the late 19th century, manufacturers were printing calendars to popularise their products. Like the images of gods , figures of important personages, of emperors and nawabs , adorned advertisement and calendars.

3. The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth

3.1. Industrial Growth

3.1.1. Cotton piece goods production doubled in India between 1900 and 1912. After the war, Manchester could never recapture it’s old position in Indian market.

3.2. Small- scale Industries Predominant

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3.2.1.1. Cheap machine- made thread wiped out the spinning industry in the 19th century, the weavers survived , despite problems.

4. Industrialisation in the Colonies

4.1. The Age of Indian textiles

4.1.1. By the 1750s this network controlled by Indian merchants, was breaking down. Trade through the new ports came to be controlled by European companies and was carried in European ships .

4.2. What happened to Weavers?

4.2.1. The consolidation of East India Company power after the 1760s did not initially lead to a decline in textile exports from India. But once the East India Company established political power it could assert a monopoly right to trade.

4.3. Manchester comes to India

4.3.1. As cotton industries developed in England , industrial groups pressurised the government to impose import duties on cotton textiles so that Manchester goods could sell in Britain without facing any competition from outside.

5. Before the industrial revolution

5.1. Proto industrialisation

5.1.1. Industrialisation which existed in Europe before the growth of factories

5.1.2. Main features include:

5.1.3. Production was done with the help of human labour

5.1.4. The system was controlled by merchants

5.1.5. Workers worked within their family farms and not in the factories

5.2. Beginning of industrial revolution

5.2.1. In the 17th and 18th centuries, merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, persuading them to produce for an international market.

5.3. The coming up of factories

5.3.1. The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s. In the early 19th century , factories increasingly became an intimate part of the landscape .

6. Hand Labour and Steam Power

6.1. Life of the workers

6.1.1. The abundance of labour in the market affected the lives of workers. Many jobseekers had to wait weeks spending nights under bridges or in night shelters. The fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the introduction of new technology.