decline continued throughout the nineteenth century. Among the causes of its decline were the oppression of the East India … Company's servants on the weavers, the iniquitous tariff policy of the colonial government both in England and in India and … India and the slow, laborious and wasteful methods followed in the manufacture of cotton fabrics by handloom weavers. The …

Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more specifically, its formal colonial rule in India and its informal …