Write True or False against each statement:

The introduction of the fly shuttle enabled handloom workers to improve their productivity.

Write True or False against each statement:

The international market for fine textiles was dominated by India till the eighteenth century.

Write True or False against each statement:

The American Civil War resulted in the reduction of cotton exports from India.

Explain what is meant by proto-industrialization.

Why did some industrialists in nineteenth-century Europe prefer hand labour over machines?