Start learning →

State PSC Colonial India — practice questions — page 8

Explore 270 free Colonial India questions in State PSC History. Open each question or exercise to read its content, reference answers and available explanation.

Practise Colonial India with Quill →

Colonial India questions and exercises with answers

Showing questions 211–240 of 270.

Around 1750, the world's largest producer of cotton textiles was:Read the answer and worked solution →European traders first met fine Indian cotton carried by Arab merchants at Mosul, giving the word:Read the answer and worked solution →The word calico derives from which port where the Portuguese landed?Read the answer and worked solution →The East India Company's 1730 order book asked for how many pieces of cloth?Read the answer and worked solution →Bandanna derives from bandhna, a method of:Read the answer and worked solution →The British law of 1720 banning printed Indian cotton in England was the:Read the answer and worked solution →The spinning jenny was invented in 1764 by:Read the answer and worked solution →The foremost textile centre of the eighteenth century, famed for mulmul and jamdani, was:Read the answer and worked solution →The tanti weavers belonged to:Read the answer and worked solution →Spinning thread on the charkha and takli was done mostly by:Read the answer and worked solution →A Persian term for a warehouse where goods were collected before sale is:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1823 the Company received a petition from how many Bengal weavers?Read the answer and worked solution →By the 1880s what share of cotton clothes worn by Indians was British-made?Read the answer and worked solution →The charkha was placed at the centre of the Congress tricolour flag adopted in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first cotton mill in India was set up in Bombay in:Read the answer and worked solution →By 1900, how many mills were operating in Bombay?Read the answer and worked solution →Tipu Sultan's legendary sword was made of a high carbon steel called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which scientist spent four years, 1818 to 1822, studying Indian Wootz steel?Read the answer and worked solution →Which community specialised in iron smelting in Central India?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1904 Charles Weld and Dorabji Tata found fine iron ore at:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rajhara Hills ore later supplied which steel plant?Read the answer and worked solution →TISCO began producing steel in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the textile wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the iron and steel wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the industry yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the craft wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Textile or steelRead the answer and worked solution →Sort cloths, people and placesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Weavers and smelters bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

Around 1750, the world's largest producer of cotton textiles was:

  1. India
  2. Britain
  3. China
  4. Egypt
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: A. India

1. This was before the British conquered Bengal. 2. India was by far the largest producer. 3. Indian cloth was traded in Southeast, West and Central Asia. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 6, Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners._

Open this question →

European traders first met fine Indian cotton carried by Arab merchants at Mosul, giving the word:

  1. Bandanna
  2. Muslin
  3. Calico
  4. Chintz
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: B. Muslin

1. Mosul is in present-day Iraq. 2. All finely woven textiles came to be called muslin. 3. Calico came from Calicut. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 6, Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners._

Open this question →

The word calico derives from which port where the Portuguese landed?

  1. Calicut
  2. Cochin
  3. Surat
  4. Madras
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: A. Calicut

1. It is on the Kerala coast. 2. Calico is derived from Calicut. 3. Calico became the general name for cotton textiles. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 6, Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners._

Open this question →

How to practise

  1. Choose a Colonial India question and try to work out your answer.
  2. Open the question to check the correct answer and read its worked solution.
  3. Continue in the app for bite-sized lessons, explanations and review with Quill. You can start without creating an account.

More History topics

Indian HistoryArt & CultureIndian History TimelineModern Indian HistoryAncient Indian HistoryWorld HistoryMedieval Indian HistoryPolitical Theory