In 1772, Henry Patullo, a Company official, had ventured to say that the demand for Indian textiles could never reduce, since any other nation produced goods of the same quality.

The American Civil War caused new problems for Indian weavers. Indian weavers could not get sufficient supply of raw cotton of good quality.The Americans stopped supplying raw cotton to Britain due to the Civil War.

The cheap, machine-produced goods of Manchester glutted the Indian market and the civil war in America stopped cotton exports to Britain which imported raw cotton from India and Indian weavers were deprived of raw cotton which sold at exorbitant price in India were the causes of collapse and decline.

The export of Indian yarn to China declined in 1906, because produce from the Chinese and Japanese mills flooded the Chinese market.

A fly shuttle is a mechanical device, used by weavers, moved by means of ropes and pulleys and it is the device which places horizontal threads (the weft) into the vertical threads (the warp).

There are many items supply by Indian factories during the First World War. They are jute bags, cloth for army uniforms, tents, leather boots, horse and mule saddles, besides other things.

The main interests of the European Managing Agencies, which dominated industrial production in India, were tea and coffee plantations, acquiring land at cheap rates and investing in mining, indigo and jute required for export trade.

E. T. Paul produced a popular music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the Dawn of the Century.

Richard Arkwright created the cotton mill in England. Cloth production was spread all over the countryside and carried out within village households.

Surat on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and Red Sea Ports; Masulipatam on the Coromandel coast and Hoogly in Bengal had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.