This set of images were taken at the offices of the Bombay Mill Owners' Association - an alliance founded in 1875 by Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit to promote an unified code of trade, commerce and employment for the Textile Industry in Bombay.

India maintained an agrarian economy and Textiles was one of the first organized industries to usher the country towards the Industrial Revolution - A distinction that held it above the rest.

At it's height in early 20's, the Bombay Mill Owners' Association was responsible for maintaining memberships of over 80 Textile Mills that directly employed 300,000 men and women within the island city of Bombay. During this period, the combined Textile Mills of Bombay contributed to over 35% of the nations Textile output.

During the early 70's, the Textile Industry in Bombay began to witness a decline due to rising manufacturing costs and militant demands as made by it's large and now powerful unionized work-force.

In 1981 the entire Textile work-force in Bombay entered into a year long strike. Disunity and dissatisfaction over the strike soon became apparent, and many Textile Mill Owners began moving their plants out of the city. Unable to resolve the prolonged strike lead to the closure of Textile Mills across the city leaving tens of thousands of mill workers unemployed.

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