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{{Short description|Indian businessman known for his pioneering efforts in the Indian cotton industry}}
'''Cowasjee Nanabhai Davar'''(1815–1873) is known for his pioneering efforts in laying the foundation of the [[cotton]] [[Textile manufacturing|industry]] in India. He established multiple [[cotton mill]]s in India. The first was [[Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company]], and another was the Bombay Throstle mill company in Bombay.

He is credited with laying the foundation work of cotton mill production in India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Chaloner|first=W. H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=de1GDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT124|title=Industry and Innovation: Selected Essays|date=2018-01-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-21416-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8311|title=The Indian Textile Journal 1854-1954.|date=1955|publisher=Indian Textile Journal, Bombay|pages=8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPlV4v2xKKwC&q=bombay+throstle|title=Maharashtra State Gazetteers: Greater Bombay (2 v.)|date=1960|publisher=Director of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Maharashtra State|pages=77|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Rungta|first=Radhe Shyam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ido8AAAAIAAJ&q=Cowasjee+Nanabhoy+Davar&pg=PA228|title=The Rise of Business Corporations in India, 1851-1900|date=1970|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=228|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Committee|first1=Great Britain Privy Council Judicial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNwqAQAAMAAJ&q=Cowasjee+Nanabhai+Davar&pg=PA327|title=Judgments of the Privy Council on Appeals from India, from 1831-1880|last2=Sutherland (Barrister-at-law)|first2=David|date=1880|publisher=Thacker, Spink & Company|pages=327|language=en}}</ref>

== Banking ==
Cowasjee was from a [[Parsis|Parsi]] capitalist and a prestigious family, and He joined the family [[Broker|broking]] business when he was sixteen only. Cowasjee was compared with [[Tata Group|Tatas]] then. He contributed to the banking sector in 1853. He was associated with banks such as Commercial bank and Orient.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Māḍagã̄vakara|first=Govinda Nārāyaṇa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3roNzMmM9iEC&q=Cowasjee+Nanabhoy+Davar&pg=PA335|title=Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863|date=2008|publisher=Anthem Press|isbn=978-1-84331-277-2|language=en}}</ref>

== Bombay Spinning and weaving Company ==
{{Main|Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company}}
The first mill he established in 1854 at [[Tardeo]], a neighboring place near South Bombay. The [[project commissioning]] was started on 7 July 1854 and completed in January 1856. And the mill production with 17000 [[Spinning (textiles)|spindles]] was initiated just after a month of starting (February 1856). Mr. Edwin Heycock was his close associate in this.

Bombay Spinning and weaving company was [[India|India's]] second mill after James London's mill, which was the first in India taken over by Broach Cotton Mills company, started production in October 1855. This company was at Umzad Bhag [[Bharuch]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Mehta|first=Makrand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lz3gNDMbWEC&q=Broach+Cotton+Mills&pg=PA192|title=Indian Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Historical Perspective: With Special Reference to Shroffs of Gujarat, 17th to 19th Centuries|date=1991|publisher=Academic Foundation|isbn=978-81-7188-017-1|pages=192|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

== Bombay Throstle mill company ==
Bombay Throstle mill company was the second cotton mill he established in 1856 immediately after the first one. This mill was with higher capacity, i.e., 20000 spindles. Late in 1859, this company was named Alliance Spinning and Weaving Mill.<ref name=":1" />

During this time Cowaszee maintained a close relation with [[W & J Galloway & Sons|J Galloway .]]

[[Throstle frame|Throstle]] spinning is outdated now it was replaced by ring spinning which was introduced later.
{{Further|Ring spinning}}
* The ring frame developed from the throstle frame, which in its turn was a descendant of [[Richard Arkwright junior|Arkwright]]'s water frame.

== See also ==

* [[Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company]]
* [[Bombay Presidency]]
* [[Throstle frame]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Cotton industry in India]]
[[Category:1815 births]]
[[Category:1873 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Bombay Presidency]]
[[Category:Bankers from British India]]
[[Category:Industrialists from British India]]
[[Category:Parsi people]]

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Kawoosahamad at 11:22, 25 March 2026