After 1811, British machine-made cloth flooded our markets, and taxes were put on our handloom goods. The trade figures show raw cotton exports from India shot up, while our finished textile exports fell sharply. But in my family, the loom fell silent not because of numbers, but because my great-grandfather’s eyesight failed, and nobody had the patience to learn the slow magic of the pit loom. The real loss was in the stories that the shuttle used to weave, not just the cloth.
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