This thoughtful study traces the impact of southern cotton on most of the important facets of life in antebellum …"This thoughtful study traces the impact of southern cotton on most of the important facets of life in antebellum …

Cotton textiles of every sort - fine, superfine and coarse - were once manufactured in abundance in the province of … India and the slow, laborious and wasteful methods followed in the manufacture of cotton fabrics by handloom weavers. The … solely on the cotton textile industry of Bengal from 1900 till the end of the colonial period in 1947. In other words, we …