The Age of Industrialization Test - 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.

Richard Arkwright created the first cotton mill.

It appointed a paid servant called the gomastha to supervise weavers, collect supplies, and examine the quality of cloth.

In Victorian Britain, the upper classes – the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie – preferred things produced by hand. Handmade products came to symbolize refinement and class. They were better finished, individually produced, and carefully designed. Machine- made goods were for export to the colonies

Horizontal threads in Flying shuttle is called Weft

Vertical threads in Flying shuttle are called Warp

Andrew Yule

1. It is a European Managing Agency
2. This Agency mobilised capital, set up joint-stock companies and managed them

In Bengal, Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune in the China trade before he turned to industrial investment, setting up six joint-stock companies in the 1830s and 1840s

Drawing on Spinning Jenny is made by T.E. Nicholson, 1835.

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 this illustration, at the centre of the picture is a goddess-like figure, the angel of progress, bearing the flag of the new century.