Industrial Revolution in India

Industrial revolution in india : The era of industrial revolution marked a widespread change in the economic setting of the Indian community. With its inception at the 18th and 19th centuries, this phenomenon struggled to shatter the yokes of cultural, social and economic bondages. Taking a deeper view of history, we infer that the period of industrial revolution in India had its very beginning at the dawn of industrial revolution at Britain[during 1775-1850] Subjecting the nature of industrial revolution down the rut, the three necessities of the revolution are laid bare  Market  Raw materials  Capital Where there’s a joint cohesion of all the three factors, amply mixed at right proportions at right time a revolutions begins. Self sustenance is the basic ideology behind the pumpinging of capital, as it acts as a basic input for entire machinery of industrial revolution to run. Even a treatise on the importance of raw materials and the market wouldn’t justify. But where was the reservoir that had all three in abundance? Which nation had the imputes to charge the millions of underfed, homeless with life? and the British saw that potential India.

On the historic even of 23rd june 1757, the English east india company won a decisive victory in the battle of plassey, and mighty warriors of siraj-ud-daula, were bent towards the britishs will. This paved way of industrial revolution in india, and its no secret of those less than twenty years after that Indian industrial revolution launched off. India provided all the three abundance, capital, market and raw material every thing was there in india in abudance, and india was the largest textile manufacturing centere. The revolution in Britain was funded by india.

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: The Industrial Revolution was a cultural phenomenon that forever influenced people's lives. The growing population in Europe and North America, the impact of improved technology on machinery and mass production, the rise of factories, and the influence of inventions such as the telegraph, the telephone, and the Bessemer Process of strengthening iron ore to steel all played important roles in the Industrial Revolution. The effects ranged from good, in the form of growing cities, individual wealth, and philanthropy; to bad, in the form of child labor, abusive working conditions, and unsanitary living conditions.

Throughout history, there have always been political, economical, social and cultural revolutions. These developments have had complex and long lasting impacts on people's lives; one revolution that has forever changed history is the Industrial Revolution. The term revolution is defined as a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving. Moreover, it was just that; the Industrial Revolution was a cultural innovation that influenced people's lives forever; a change that was needed and initiated many more modernizations. A cause of the Industrial Revolution was growing population by the mid-1800s the population of Europe and North FOOT America was on a high rise. The rapidly growing cities of the industrial world attracted people of all social classes. Another cause of the Industrial revolution was the growing demand for textiles and other mass-produced goods.

NOTE- labour law and industrial relations in india. Author-supremo vinod shah, frist edition- 2011. page no- 1to 8.