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CBSE Class 10 Global World & Industrialisation — practice questions — page 7

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What did Company official Henry Patullo claim about demand for Indian textiles in 1772?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1850-51, what share of India's exports did piece-goods account for?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1850, what share of the value of Indian imports was cotton piece-goods?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did Britain turn to India for raw cotton in the 1860s?Read the answer and worked solution →Bombay's first cotton mill came up in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the first jute mill set up in Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →How many joint-stock companies did Dwarkanath Tagore set up in the 1830s and 1840s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which trade gave many early Indian industrialists their first wealth?Read the answer and worked solution →Which product did the British in India begin exporting to China from the late 1700s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Marwari trader founded the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did J.N. Tata set up India's first iron and steel works?Read the answer and worked solution →Which European firms managed Indian companies before 1914?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group was not allowed to join the European chambers of commerce in India?Read the answer and worked solution →How many workers were in Indian factories in 1901?Read the answer and worked solution →Over half of Bombay's cotton mill workers in 1911 came from which district?Read the answer and worked solution →Who did industrialists usually employ to recruit new mill workers?Read the answer and worked solution →What did jobbers begin demanding from workers in return for favours?Read the answer and worked solution →When did mill workers most often return to their village homes?Read the answer and worked solution →In Indian mills, in which department did women workers mostly work?Read the answer and worked solution →What did European Managing Agencies set up on cheap land?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the early cotton mills in India mostly produce instead of fabric?Read the answer and worked solution →Apart from handloom weavers in India, where was mill yarn from India sent?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did Indian mills get a vast home market during the First World War?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did merchants in different regions form Chambers of Commerce in the late 1800s?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1911, where were about two-thirds of large industries located?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1900 and 1940, how did handloom cloth production in India change?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1941, what share of handlooms in India had fly shuttles?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did fine saris like Banarasi keep selling steadily even in famines?Read the answer and worked solution →Why could mills not easily copy special hand-woven designs?Read the answer and worked solution →What did Manchester cloth labels need to make familiar?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What did Company official Henry Patullo claim about demand for Indian textiles in 1772?

  1. It would never reduce
  2. It would double soon
  3. It would vanish fully
  4. It would move to Britain
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Correct answer: A. It would never reduce

Patullo argued in 1772 that demand for Indian textiles could never fall because no other nation made goods of the same quality.

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By 1850-51, what share of India's exports did piece-goods account for?

  1. 13 per cent
  2. 3 per cent
  3. 31 per cent
  4. 33 per cent
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Correct answer: B. 3 per cent

Piece-goods had been 33 per cent of India's exports in 1811-12 but were no more than 3 per cent by 1850-51.

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By 1850, what share of the value of Indian imports was cotton piece-goods?

  1. Over 13 per cent
  2. Over 51 per cent
  3. Under 3 per cent
  4. Over 31 per cent
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Correct answer: D. Over 31 per cent

By 1850 cotton piece-goods made up over 31 per cent of the value of Indian imports, and over 50 per cent by the 1870s.

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