The Age of Industrialization Test - 2

The picture on the famous book ‘Dawn of the century’ indicates:

1. There is an angle of progress, bearing the flag of the new century and is gently perched on a wheel with wings symbolizing time.
2. The flight is taking into the future.

The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied

The first symbol of the new era was cotton. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.

In 1900, a popular music publisher E.T. Paull produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the ‘Dawn of the Century’.

In the early nineteenth century, factories increasingly became an intimate part of the English landscape.

‘Proto’ means the first or early form of something.

Trade Guilds: Association of producers that trained craftsmen, maintained control over production, regulated competition and prices, and restricted the entry of new people within the trade.

The first cotton mill that came up in India was in 1854.

The first cotton mill that came up in India was in 1854.

1. In Bengal Dwarkanath Tagore had set up six joint stock companies in 1830’s & 40’s.
2. In Bombay, Parsis like Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata built huge industrial empires in India.
3. Seth Hukumchand, a Marwari businessman had set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917, So did the father and grandfather of the famous industrialist G.D.Birla.