CBSE Class 8 Answered

Before the British conquest of Bengal in around 1750, India was in effect the world’s largest producer of cotton textiles. Indian textiles were renowned the world over for their fine quality and excellent craftsmanship. They were traded in many distant parts of the world such as Southeast Asia (Java, Sumatra and Penang) and West and Central Asia. It was only form the sixteenth century that European trading companies began buying Indian textiles for sale in Europe.