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Rulers granted the guilds the monopoly right to:Read the answer and worked solution →The cotton mill was created by:Read the answer and worked solution →Which sector led the first phase of British industrialisation up to the 1840s?Read the answer and worked solution →The steam engine of Newcomen was improved and patented in 1781 by:Read the answer and worked solution →At the start of the nineteenth century England had how many steam engines?Read the answer and worked solution →The Spinning Jenny was devised in 1764 by:Read the answer and worked solution →Workers attacked the Spinning Jenny mainly because they feared:Read the answer and worked solution →The paid servant appointed by the Company to supervise weavers was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Weavers were tied to the Company through the system of:Read the answer and worked solution →Clashes broke out because the new gomasthas were:Read the answer and worked solution →The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first jute mill in Bengal was set up in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Elgin Mill was started in the 1860s at:Read the answer and worked solution →The first spinning and weaving mill of Madras began production by:Read the answer and worked solution →Who made a fortune in the China trade before turning to industry in Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Seth Hukumchand set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in:Read the answer and worked solution →J.N. Tata set up the first iron and steel works in India at:Read the answer and worked solution →Over half the workers in Bombay's cotton industry in 1911 came from:Read the answer and worked solution →Industrialists recruited new mill workers through a:Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton piece-goods production in India doubled between 1900 and:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Rulers granted the guilds the monopoly right to:

  1. Produce and trade certain goods
  2. Collect the customs duty owed
  3. Appoint the mayor of the town
  4. Raise a militia for the crown
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Correct answer: A. Produce and trade certain goods

1. Guilds were associations of producers. 2. Rulers granted different guilds the monopoly right to produce and trade in specific products. 3. That monopoly is what shut new merchants out of the towns. _Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_

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The cotton mill was created by:

  1. Rowland Ashfield
  2. Richard Arkwright
  3. Reginald Ashworth
  4. Roland Aylesbury
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Correct answer: B. Richard Arkwright

1. Eighteenth century inventions improved carding, spinning and rolling. 2. Richard Arkwright then created the cotton mill. 3. Costly machines could be bought and maintained under one roof. _Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_

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Which sector led the first phase of British industrialisation up to the 1840s?

  1. Coal
  2. Cocoa
  3. Cotton
  4. Copper
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Correct answer: C. Cotton

1. The most dynamic British industries were cotton and metals. 2. Cotton was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s. 3. After that the iron and steel industry led the way. _Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_

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