2. Exports of British goods to India increased. The Manchester goods flooded Indian markets.
3. The machine-made goods were cheaper and weavers could not compete with them.
4. By the 1860, weavers faced a new problem. They could not get sufficient supply of raw cotton of good quality When the American Civil War broke out and cotton supplies from the US were cut off.
5. The production of textiles impacts the environment in a number of areas including water usage, chemical waste, pollution.
6. The industry also has a reputation for extremely poor working conditions. Despite mechanised harvesting, the cotton industry is still largely dependent on cheap labour.
7. Raw cotton exports from India to Britain shot up the prices of cotton.
8. Traditional weavers lost their village markets.
9. The Civil War in USA forced the British to buy more raw cotton from India for their Manchester textile industries. This created an acute shortage of raw material for the weavers and the Indian handloom industry collapsed
