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Discuss the advancement made in Textile Technology under the Delhi Sultans.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Textile production was already India's largest craft industry before the Delhi Sultanate, but the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries saw genuine technological advances that raised both the volume and variety of cloth output.

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  • Ginning: Separating Fibre from Seed
  • Carding: The Cotton-Carder's Bow
  • Spinning: The Charkha Revolution
  • Weaving: The Treadle Loom Arrives
  • Carpet Weaving: A Persian Import
  • Dyeing, Printing, and Calico-Painting
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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