| Development of the Ceramic Industry 1n
South India. |
Speech delivfl'ed by Mr. Natrajan, General i.Uanagcr,
Pages : 203-205
DOI : 10.1080/0371750X.1942.11011962 |
| Abstract |
| The Ba~el German :Mission might be called the father of
the Cemmic Industry in ~outh India if not the whole of
India. In 1865, they started their first Roofing tile faetory
in Mangalore and subsequently multiplied their total number
of works to seven, locating their factories on the weot coast of
Malabar. During the last world war the German Mission was
deprived of their factories and these passed on to the Commonwealth
Trust Ltd., a British concern. By about 1900, several
Indian-owned tile companie'l came into being and it is the
Indian-owned companies that are now dominatiilg the field.
Feroke, a sea coast village 140 miles South of :Mangalore, has
become a centre of tile production and this place has now the
reputation of having the largest factories and their products have
attained a very high standard of quality. Some of these
large works turn out as much as 40,000 tiles per day,
equivalent to about 120 tons of finished product. |
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