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- W843473663 abstract "Between December I9II and January I9I2, Arno Schmidt Pearse, the secretary of the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers, visited India to gather firsthand information on cotton cultivation and trade on the subcontinent. In his report, he revealed shock at certain practices he had enconntered. 'In India, many fraudulent customs are common in the handling of cotton, probably more than in any other country', he Wrote. He had found evidence that seeds of different cotton types were mixed before sowing, rendering more difficult the growth of high-quality long-stapled cotton varieties. Furthermore, he had observed that Indian cotton was regularly watered in certain regions to raise its weight and that cotton bales were often tampered with by enclosing dirt, stones, cotton waste or lower qUality cotton in them. It was evident 'that every spinner who receives such cotton sustains a heavy loss' . I How could it be that Indian cotton was still being offered in such a deplorable state on the world market at the beginning of the twentieth century, more than five decades after the onset of direct British rule on the subcontinent? Why were the British not able to counter practices so obviously damaging for Western industry? What role did quality play in the cotton industry, and how did attributes of a certain kind of cotton for instance, the length of the staple influence the geographical reach of" @default.
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- W843473663 title "The Boundaries of Western Power : The Colonial Cotton Economy in India and the Problem of Quality" @default.
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