How to Develop Productive Industry in India and the East
Mills and Factories

This 1867 work provides a blueprint for developing Indian industries, and urges investment in up-to-date machinery to boost productivity.

P. R. Cola (Author)

9781108046237, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 April 2012

426 pages, 144 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 kg

The craft of manufacturing cotton was learnt by the British in India, but the East India Company's drive for profits caused the development of a cotton-spinning industry in Britain, which grew enormously when mechanical processes were introduced during the industrial revolution. Subsequent protectionist legislation which forbade the export of anything except raw cotton meant that India's supremacy in the industry was lost to Britain in the nineteenth century. This 1867 work, edited by P. R. Cola, who owned the Arkwright Cotton Mills in Bombay (Mumbai), argues for investment in up-to-date machinery, and provides a blueprint for developing a host of industries such as cotton and other textiles, jute, sugar, oil and iron, which would bring prosperity to India. Containing illustrations and statistical data, the book gives useful insights into the early development of many industries in India and in some of the other economies of the East.

Preface
1. Industrial development in India and the East
2. Cotton ginning
3. Cotton manufactures
4. Bleaching and finishing works
5. Dyeing
6. Calico printing
7. Jute manufactures
8. Silk manufactures
9. Sugar
10. Manufactures of oils
11. Oil gas
12. Paper manufactures
13. Iron foundry and workshops
14. Timber mills
15. Corn mills
16. Brick works
17. Steam motive power
18. Coal mines in India and the East
19. Factory buildings
20. General hints on factories
21. Agricultural machinery
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: History of engineering & technology [TBX]