The very first cotton mills in India, however, were powered by the British. Bowreah Mills was built for £200,000, for 20,000 spindles and 100 looms, and was a pioneering attempt at imperial ...

This strike, from April 14 to June 10, 1920, was the first recorded strike in the cotton mills of South India. Contemporary newspapers described it as an action in defence of women’s honour.

PREMIUM An image of Harvey Mills, a colonial-era cotton mill in Madurai, sourced from 'Southern India: Its History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources', a book compiled by Somerset Playne ...

The Parsi community, which gave India many of its firsts— first cotton mill in the country, the first Indian-owned newspaper, ...

With the American Civil War cutting off cotton supplies to England, Indian cotton became a lifeline for British mills. In 1860, India exported 422,000 cotton bales to England . By 1866, this ...