The Age of Industrialisation Which among these was a pre colonial sea port?
(1) Vishakhapatnam
(2) Chennai
(3) Hoogly
(4) Cochin
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation Which one of the
following ports decayed by the end of the eighteenth century?
(1) Calcutta
(2)
Goa
(3) Surat
(4) None of the above
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation How can we prove that the old ports like Surat and Hooghly declined with the
coming of the Euro-pean companies?
(1) Exports from these ports fell
dramatically
(2) In the last years of the 17th century, the gross value of trade
that passed through Surat had been Rs 16million. By the 1740s, it had slumped to
Rs 3 million.
(3) The credit that financed the trade dried up
(4) The local
bankers went bankrupt slowly
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation In which one of the following
years did the first cotton mill in Bombay (Mumbai) comeup?
(1) 1854
(2) 1855
(3)
1862
(4) 1874
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation Dwarkanath Tagore is a
(1) Painter
(2) Industrialist
(3) Publisher
(4) Social Reformer
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation What was Spinning Jenny?
(1) A machine
(2) A person
(3) An
industry
(4) None of the above
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation Which were the
most dynamic industries in Britain during the 19th century?
(1) Cotton and metal
(2) Metal and sugar
(3) Ship and cotton
(4) Cotton and sugar
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation In 1772, Henry Patulla, a Company official, had declared that
(1) Indian textiles
would soon lose their charm and people will not buy them
(2) the demand for
Indian textiles would never shrink as no other country produced goods of the
same
Quality
(3) Indian textiles could never compete with mill-made goods
(4) none
of the above
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
The Age of Industrialisation Whom did the British government appoint to supervise weavers, collect supplies
and examine the
Quality of cloth?
(1) Jobber
(2) Sepoy
(3) Policeman
(4) Gomastha
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 4 Solution : -. |
