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Cotton Research in Madras - A Retrospect

Volume : 40
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 24 - 27
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Abstract


Cotton happened to be one of the few crops in which the East India Company was actively interested during the first half of the nineteenth century, more to feed and maintain the textile industry of England than to help in the development of the national resources of India. The aim though selfish, has been largely responsible for the subsequent establishment of a stable and efficient Indian industry in the twentieth century. Our dependancy on foreign cloth has not only ceased completely but our textile products are now in great demand in other countries. In the space of one hundred years, India has forged herself to a prominent place among the nations hitherto leading in the manufacture of cotton textiles.

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24 - 27
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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