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Small producers in towns were often faced with stiff competition from imports of cheap machine-made goods from England, where industrialisation was more advanced than on the continent.This was also the period when new religions appeared in the subcontinent.Both skills were developed in response to subcontinental conditions: the doosra to counter aggressive batsmen with heavy modern bats who were threatening to make finger-spin obsolete and reverse swing to move the ball in on dusty, unresponsive wickets under clear skies.Such a division also ignored the rich diversity of the subcontinent.Many societies in the subcontinent did not follow the social rules and rituals prescribed by the Brahmanas.The continent produces more than half of the world's tin.Through a fortunate chance he became laboratory assistant to Davy, and during 1813-4, Faraday accompanied him to the Continent.A more important sign that the centre of gravity in cricket has shifted away from the old, Anglo-Australian axis is that innovations in cricket technique in recent years have mainly come from the practice of subcontinental teams in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.If you look at Maps 1 and 2 closely, you will see something significant happening in the subcontinent during the first half of the eighteenth century.Throughout, people travelled from one part of the subcontinent to another.लोगों ने सदैव उपमहाद्धीप के एक हिस्से से दूसरे हिस्से तक यात्रा की|India is a southward extension of the Asian Continent.During these thousand years the societies of the subcontinent were transformed often and economies in several regions reached a level of prosperity that attracted the interest of European trading companies.They saw it as a collection of castes and races and religious communities and gave themselves the credit for unifying the sub-continent.With the decline in the authority of the Mughal emperors, the governors of large provinces, subadars, and the great zamindars consolidated their authority in different parts of the subcontinent.Also, what we understand as regional cultures today are often the product of complex processes of intermixing of local traditions with ideas from other parts of the subcontinent.