COTTON - REBIRTH

In India cotton clothes were famous 3000 years earlier. Other countries were not aware of cotton then.

During English rule in India, traditional people from England wore India’s “muslin” cloth. No one came forward to buy clothes from England. This led to agitation by English government. They passed law in the parliament by which they imposed a fine of Rs.500/= for those who used Indian made muslin cloth. But English women wore it dishonestly.

In order to sell their mill cloth they restricted muslin. They used to give lower wages to those who wooved cotton cloth. Many hand loom weavers were forced to search for other works. Thus hand loom weaving was ruined by Englishmen.

Hand loom machines were unseen throughout India. Mahatma Gandhi used to wear mill cloths. When he came from South Africa he came to know about this, he wanted to give new life to hand loom cloths. But people of that generation even did not know how hand loom machine look like. He requested majjumdar, a social worker to get hand loom machine. Majjumdar went throughout the country but she could not find it. Finally she found it in a small town from Baroda.

No one was there to weave a cloth. Finally they managed to weave a 30 inch cotton sack that was worn by Mahatma Gandhi. Many improvements were made later. He asked all Indians to wear cotton cloths. He said hand loom machines would give strength to Indian economy. It was the great social work by him to our nation. 

Understanding the value of cotton and our nation please wear Indian made cotton clothes