RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes History Chapter 6 Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners

These comprehensive RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes History Chapter 6 Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners will give a brief overview of all the concepts.

RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes History Chapter 6 Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners

→ Around 1750, before the British conquered Bengal, India was by far the world’s largest producer of cotton textiles.

→ In 1720, the British government enacted a legislation banning the use of printed cotton textiles—chintz—in England. Interestingly, this Act was known as Calico Act.

→ In 1764, the spinning jinny was invented by John Kaye and in 1786, steam engine was invented by Richard Arkwright. Cloth could now be woven in immense quantities and cheaply too.

→ The tanti weavers of Bengal, the julahas or momin weavers of north India, sale and kaikollar and devangs of south India are some of the communities famous for weaving.

→ By the beginning of the nineteenth century, English-made cotton textile successfully ousted Indian goods from their traditional markets in Africa, America and Europe. Thousands of weavers in India were now thrown out of employment.

→ The first cotton mill in India was set up as a spinning mill in Bombay in 1854.

→ The first major spurt in the development of cotton factory production in India was during the first'world war.

→ Indian wootz steel fascinated European scientists. The wootz steel making process, which was so widely known in South India, was completely lost by the mid-nineteenth century.

→ Jamsetji Tata set up the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) on the banks of river Subamarekha, which began producing steel in 1912.

→ To fulfil the increasing demand of steel because of the first world war, there was a great increase in the production of TISCO.