The British East India Company's export figures show a flood of cheap Manchester cloth into India after 1811, which crushed the market. But for our family, the bigger blow was the *garmi* of being forced into indigo cultivation on our own land, starving the looms of time and weavers of spirit. The trade data is just the ledger entry; the real cost was breaking a lineage. My dadi still keeps her shuttle like a sacred text, though her fingers are too stiff to use it.
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