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India's cotton weavers suffered as a result of an increase in Manchester imports.

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The above statement is True.
As England's cotton industries grew, industrial organisations started to be anxious about imports from other nations. They pushed the government to put import taxes on cotton textiles so Manchester products could sell in Britain without being up against any foreign competition. In parallel, businessmen convinced the East India Company to advertise British goods in India. In the early nineteenth century, British cotton products' exports rose sharply. The collapse of their export market and the subsequent oversupply of Manchester imports on the local market caused two issues for cotton weavers in India simultaneously. The imported cotton goods, made by machines at lower prices, were so inexpensive that weavers found it difficult to compete with them. By the 1850s, reports from most of India's weaving regions told tales of decline and devastation.

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