At first, the ruling Mughal Dynasty in India was able to keep the traders under close scrutiny. Beginning around 1707, however, the dynasty collapsed into dozens of small states. In 1757, the East India Company defeated Indian troops at the Battle of Plassey. The East India Company became the foremost power in India, and India became the "crown jewel of the British Empire." In 1857, Indian soldiers (called sepoys) came to believe that the cartridges of their rifles were greased with pork and beef fat. This was important because to use the cartridges, the user had to bite off the ends. This was a religious concern for Hindu and Muslim sepoys, who were forbidden to eat these meats. This led to the Sepoy Mutiny when 85 soldiers refused to use the cartridges. The soldiers …show more content…
That many Japanese wanted to work in the factories even though they could die. Like this young girl really wanted to work in the factory to make her mother proud, but she soon got tuberculosis and was sent home and died from the bad air quality in the textile factories(Doc 3). girls were the only salvation of the family who went to work in the factories. Like in (Doc 4) the girls of the farmers were the last choice if they wanted to leave so they sent them to work in mill factories so they could get money to buy food.
Secondly, the production of cotton yarn and cloth in both Japan and India were very important. That once India had invented machine spun yarn there was less and less people doing hand spun yarn. But when the machine made cloth was invented, they kept doing the handwoven cloth by hands(Doc 1). That in 1884 Japan produced 5 million of pounds. Then in 1894 they produced 117 million of pounds. Then in 1904 they produced 278 million of pounds. Also in 1914 they produced 666 million of pounds. As you can see they kept producing more and more cotton yarn every ten years with the help of the machine(Doc