The Age of Indu...

Which of the following statements is incorrect about the proto industries?

Merchant clothiers bought wool from

What was the contribution of Richard Arkwright to the process of industrialisation?

Who produced the first steam engine that was later improved and patented in 1781?

The invention of which of the following technologies angered women so much that they attacked it?

Which of the following types of products came to represent refinement and class?

Which of the following were the main pre-colonial ports of India?

a. Surat
b. Masulipatam
c. Hooghly
d. Haldia

Which of the following became the first symbol of the new era of industrialisation in Britain?

Which of the following statements is/are correct about trade guilds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

a. They were associations of merchants.
b. Rulers granted different guilds the monopoly right to produce and trade in specific products.
c. They controlled the business in the countryside.

Which of the following were the paid servants of the British East India Company in India, who supervised weavers, collected supplies, and examined the quality of cloth?

Where in India was the first cotton mill established?

The Indian industrialist who set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta, in 1917 was

Which of the following were the European Managing Agencies till the First World War that controlled a large sector of Indian industries with the help of capital raised by Indian financiers?

a. Bird Heiglers & Co.
b. Andrew Yule
c. Jardine Skinner & Co.
d. Henry Pattulo

Which of the following statements is true?

The European Managing Agencies dominated industrial production in India. They were interested in certain products, which include:

a. Tea and coffee
b. Indigo
c. Jute
d. Mining
e. Coarse cotton yarn

Which of the following was not an effect of the First World War on the Indian industries?

Which of the following mechanical devices helped in increasing the production of handloom products while keeping the costs low?

Trade in which of the following products was affected by the goods produced in mills, or during bad harvests or famines?

Which of the following statements is/are correct about the labels on the products?

a. The labels of cloth made in Manchester included figures of Indian Gods and Goddesses, emperors and nawabs, and national leaders.
b. By the late nineteenth century, manufacturers had started printing calendars to popularise their products.
c. The image of Krishna was most popularly used for baby products.