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CBSE - The Age of Industrialisation
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Practice Question
The Age of Industrialisation
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The Age of Industrialisation
Who established six joint stock companies in India during 1830-40?
(1) Jamsedji Nusserwanjee Tata
(2) Dinshaw Petit
(3) Seth Hukumchand
(4) Dwarkanath Tagore
Correct Answer: 4
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Related Questions
The Age of Industrialisation
1
Weaving industry finally collapsed by the end of the 19th century. Why?
(1) All raw materials vanished from India
(2) Indian weavers took to other professions because of high prices of raw materials
(3) Indian factories came up and began flooding the market with machine-made goods
(4) The British totally monopolised the textile trade
Correct Answer: 3
2
A gomastha was :
(1) an officer of the East India Company who looked after the textile trade
(2) an officer of the Company who acted as a go-between the Company and Indian traders
(3) a paid servant of the Company who supervised weavers, collected supplies and examined the
Quality of the cloth
(4) none of these
Correct Answer: 3
3
Who was Dwarkanath Tagore?
(1) A social reformer
(2) Musician
(3) Industrialist
(4) Painter
Correct Answer: 3
4
Which of the following causes led to the decline and collapse of weaving industry in India?
(1) By the 1850s, export markets collapsed, local markets shrank
(2) The cheap, machine-produced goods of Manchester glutted the Indian market
(3) The civil war in America stopped cotton exports to Britain which now imported raw cotton from India and Indian weavers were deprived of raw cotton which sold at exorbitant price in India
(4) Both
(2) and
(3)
Correct Answer: 4
5
Which of the following was not a problem of Indian weavers at the early 19th century?
(1) Shortage of raw material
(2) Clashes with Gomasthas
(3) Collapse of local and foreign market
(4) Setting up of new factories
Correct Answer: 2
