05-10-2010, 09:38 PM
(05-10-2010, 09:10 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Here is an account from the US Civil War perspective. Looking at Wikipedia, I noted that around 1857, the British East India Company had been systematically annexing Raj lands, and "Import tariffs were kept low, according to traditional British free-market sentiments, and thus the Indian market was flooded with cheap clothing from Britain. Master weavers had their fingers cut off to prevent them from weaving." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_t...on_of_1857But presumably Britain, in annexing lands and in forcing the Indian market for finished cotton products, would want to do anything *but* drive the Indians out of raw cotton production? After all, they have to be making something or another, or else they aren't a market.
(You still haven't told us which war you're talking about.)
-Jester