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The British desire for raw cotton from India influenced the development of the British textile industry and
Great Britain’s relationship with India.
… Inevitably, Indian cotton had the makings of a contentious [controversial] political issue.
By depriving India of the fruits of its own labor, England all but guaranteed that the crop
would one day come to symbolize colonial subjugation [control] and provide a rallying point
against it. When that day finally arrived in the early 190os, a frail warrior with the heart of a
lion, Mahatma Gandhi, intertwined the destinies of homespun cotton and self-rule so adroitly
[skillfully] that he made one indistinguishable from the other. Freedom became the cotton
cloth you wove and wore, a tangible [visible] protest against tyranny from abroad.…
Source: Stephen Yafa, Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber, Penguin Books
According to Stephen Yafa, what effect did the British cotton textile industry have on India? [1]

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According to Stephen Yafa, one effect the British cotton textile industry had on India was that it greadly increased the demand for labor in many regions. 
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