Westerners mix globalization with Westernization and presume that the global economy is a pure Western creation. This discussion reveals the multicultural origins of globalization, not to marginalize the West but to show how it has long been embedded in complex interconnections with non-Western actors/agents and processes.
The central theme is the role of India from Indian cotton textile exports. Indian structural power organized the first (historical-capitalist) global economy between 1500 and c.1850 .
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