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In 1805, a British official, Benjamin

Heyne, listed the manufactures of Bangalore which included the following: Women’s cloth of different musters and names Coarse chintz Muslins Silk cloths. Of the list, which kind of cloth would have

definitely fallen out of use in the early 1800s and

why? 

Answer: By 1800 in Europe, Spinning technology had improved with the spinning jenny (1764) and

then the spinning mule (1779), which could spin strong, fine thread good enough for making muslin.

Therefore, muslin cloth from India would have definitely fallen out of use in the early 1800s.