GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The cottage industries were no longer able to compete with large-scale enterprises, and their productivity became gradually reduced due to the increased use of machinery and production techniques and innovative ideas that came with industrialization.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the Industrial Revolution, family-based cottage-industries were displaced by the factory system, a method of manufacturing using machinery and the division of labor. The factory system was first adopted in Great Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the Industrial Revolution, Britain started producing machine-made goods and textiles that were much cheaper than the Indian goods. They were also often better in quality. Indian handicrafts slowly died because they could not compete against the cheaper products from Britain that were flooding the Indian markets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Early 18th century British industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. Most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers.