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and Itampur. (i:\TH.\I. l'l>M\<;EH [7] NttgpUT (2), UK 

 Hhandara. Miirh.mpur. Sainl.alpiir. Challdu. Hinganj. (1), 



a I I ). an. I lla| S'ai 

 Kllirl.j IM.IV (1), 



11 ( 1 ). Ajnm M.-r\\.tt.i i h. and K i-h.-ngarh ( 1 ). HYDERABAD [3] Aur. 

 bad (1). Mydcra'-ad t.-\\n (1). and Kulbtirpi (1). BK*- . (7), 



H"urah (.'!!. I '..irdu an, Mirbhmn. SrrainpMi .-, N.idi.t. M , 

 Ihnaipiir. Kannpnr, Bogra, Dacca, Tipp.-ra. Faridpnr. 



linul. Saran. .M'>nghyr, Bha^'alpur, ( 'uttai-k. A-s \M Sibsajjar and Manipur. 

 ^v (141) i (84), Ahin>ilabad (3'2). Broach (4). Surat Cl). 



i ( 1 ), Veraingai ih\\a,n (1). Nan. r (1), 



Huhli C-M. Shulapur (3), Belgauiu (_'). Dliar\var (1), Bijapur, Poona (2 



.Mnii(l). SlND Hala. Narapurand Kararhi. MADRAS[17] Madras town 

 (4), CluM^lrput (( indavari), Nellore, Vizagapatam, Ma-iuHpatam. Salem, North 

 \rni). Coimbatore (1), Bellary (1), Tanjore, Madura (I), Pondicherry (6), 

 Turn. -\rlly (2), Tuticorin (1), Calicut (1), and Travancore (1). MYSORE [2] Ban- 

 galore (-2) and Shimoga. BURMA A domestic industry only. 



Sites for Factories. The selection of sites for steam-power factories owrf 

 has been governed mainly by three considerations : (1) proximity to supply 

 of raw cotton ; (2) the existence of an indigenous industry and therefore of 

 a community of professional weavers who might be drawzi upon for labour ; 

 and (3) facilities of transport to important markets. As indicated by the 

 figures in the above enumeration, the modern power-loom industry has 

 followed very much in the path of the ancient hand-loom craft. The fine 

 muslins of Dacca, Ami, Chanderi, Kota, Rohtak, Benares and other locali- 

 ties are still being manufactured. Many writers speak of Dacca muslins 

 as being a product of past ages. So long ago as 1820 Mr. Walter Hamilton, 

 one of the Company's officials resident in Dacca, prophesied that with the 

 decline and fall of the Delhi Court the loss of the fine muslins of Dacca 

 might be expected, since the demand for these expensive fabrics very 

 'bly would cease. But at the Delhi Durbar Exhibition of 1903 some 

 remarkably fine muslins of Dacca were sold on behalf of the manufacturers 

 and these were very nearly as fine as the samples in the Calcutta Museum, 

 which were procured in 1884 and made somewhere about that date. 

 There is no very ancient sample of these muslins known anywhere, so that 

 we have little by which to compare the famed ancient textiles with the 

 modern productions. But the examples presently being turned out 

 would measure 400's or 450's, while English power looms have been known 

 to produce 600's. Cotton yarns are said to be counts of 20's, 30's or 400's, 

 when not more than a like number of hanks of 840 yards go to the pound 

 avoirdupois. 



The point of interest in these Dacca muslins, however, lies in the fact 

 that the hand spinners of Dacca are producing to-day yarns of a fineness 

 that no machinery in the world could spin from the inferior staple which 

 they use. Dr. Taylor wrote, in 1840, that the Dacca spinners failed to use 

 the fine American cottons, and gave as their reason the fact that the English 

 yarn swells on bleaching, while that of Dacca shrinks and becomes finer 

 and stronger. It would thus appear that the European spinner, with all 

 his beautiful machinery, may still have something to learn from the hand 

 spinner, and that something might possibly lead to his being able to spin 

 shorter staples than he at present considers indispensable. This hint seems 

 worthy of careful investigation (see pp. 594-5, 607). 



Special Indian Goods. The artistic cottons produced in India are 

 referable to two main heads long cloths or damasks and muslins, plain 

 or figured. The patterns are usually woven, not printed. When checked 



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Staples. 

 Swells oa 

 Bleaching. 



