Clusters

India’s business towns, explained

Whole towns that make one thing for the world. How each cluster works — who makes what, how goods and money move, and what it is up against — from government data, trade bodies and the people in it.

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The first pieces are being researched now. Each one takes a full day of reading filings, trade data and interviews before it is written.

Coming up

  • Morbi: how India's tile capital works
  • Tiruppur: India's knitwear export town
  • Surat: diamonds, textiles and the cutting trade
  • Rajkot: the engineering cluster behind India's pumps
  • Moradabad: the brass city and its exporters
  • Ludhiana: cycles, hosiery and machine tools
  • Indore: how the namkeen business grew
  • Sivakasi: fireworks, matches and printing

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