How were indian textile viewed in …

1)  With the growth of industrial production, British industrialists viewed India as a vast market for their industrial products and thus, manufactured goods from Britain began to flood India. India became the largest producer of cotton textiles as it had been renowned for their fine quality and craftsmanship.
2)  Memories of this flourishing trade of Indian weavers was preserved by means of ‘words’ which are currently used in English and other languages.
3)  European traders encountered fine cotton cloth from India carried by Arab merchants in Mosul in present day Iraq. So they referred to these finely woven textiles as ‘muslin’.
4)  When the Portuguese first came to India in search of spices, they landed in Calicut and the cotton textiles they took to Europe came to be known as ‘calico’   thus, making this word commonly denote cotton textiles in the years to come.