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1. The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in:
A. 1854
B. 1862
C. 1874
D. 1917
2. The first jute mill in Bengal was set up in:
A. 1855
B. 1862
C. 1865
D. 1874
3. The first cotton mill of Ahmedabad was set up in:
A. 1854
B. 1860
C. 1861
D. 1862
4. Dwarkanath Tagore’s enterprises sank due to:
A. Chinese competition
B. Business crises of the 1840s
C. Government taxes
D. Lack of workers
5. Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata’s initial wealth came partly from:
A. Oil
B. Raw cotton shipments to England
C. Iron mining
D. Spices
6. Seth Hukumchand is known for setting up the first Indian:
A. Cotton mill in Bombay
B. Jute mill in Calcutta
C. Steel plant in Jamshedpur
D. Textile mill in Kanpur
7. European Managing Agencies like Bird Heiglers & Co.were involved in:
A. Shipbuilding for Indian merchants
B. Managing and financing Indian industries
C. Suppressing Indian handlooms
D. Running Indian railways
8. Indian businessmen were not allowed to join:
A. Chambers of Commerce of Europeans
B. Local cooperative banks
C. Indian labour unions
D. Textile fairs
9. In 1901 the number of workers in Indian factories was about:
A. 50,000
B. 584,000
C. 1 million
D. 2 million
10. Over 50% workers in the Bombay cotton industries in 1911 came from:
A. Gujarat
B. Ratnagiri district
C. Bengal
D. Madras
11. Workers often returned to their villages during:
A. British inspections
B. Harvests and festivals
C. Famines
D. Elections
12. Industrialists employed jobbers to:
A. Supervise production
B. Recruit workers
C. Transport raw cotton
D. Collect taxes
13. The jobber gradually became a person of:
A. Weakness
B. Authority and power
C. No importance
D. Political influence only
14. Bhai Bhosle recalled his father’s shift in the 1930s-40s was:
A. 5 am to 3 pm
B. 5 pm to 3 am
C. 8 am to 6 pm
D. 6 pm to 6 am
15. European Managing Agencies primarily invested in:
A. Indian handicrafts
B. Tea, coffee, mining, indigo and jute
C. Automobile factories
D. Machine tool industry
16. Early Indian cotton mills produced mostly:
A. Superior fabric
B. Coarse cotton yarn
C. Ready-made garments
D. Jute products
17. The Swadeshi movement encouraged people to:
A. Buy Manchester goods
B. Boycott foreign cloth
C. Work longer hours
D. Import more yarn
18. Export of Indian yarn to China declined after:
A. 1900
B. 1906
C. 1910
D. 1920
19. During the First World War Manchester imports into India:
A. Increased
B. Declined
C. Remained same
D. Doubled
20. Indian mills during the war were called upon to supply:
A. Food grains
B. War needs like jute bags, army cloth, leather boots
C. Steam engines
D. Ammunition only
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