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Over half of Bombay's cotton mill workers in 1911 came from which neighbouring district?Read the answer and worked solution →J N Tata set up India's first iron and steel works in 1912 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Mill owners recruited new workers through an old, trusted worker called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton piece-goods production in India doubled between 1900 and:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1911 about what share of India's large industries were located in Bengal and Bombay?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1911, what share of the industrial labour force worked in registered factories?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1941, over what share of Indian handlooms had fly shuttles?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Indian mill townsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the British inventorsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the industrial datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the mill wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Britain or IndiaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the industrial namesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Industrialisation bingoRead the answer and worked solution →For over a millennium, cowrie shells used as currency reached China and East Africa from:Read the answer and worked solution →Along the silk routes, what flowed from Europe to Asia in return for silk, pottery and spices?Read the answer and worked solution →Potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chillies reached Europe and Asia only after the voyages of:Read the answer and worked solution →The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors of America was the germ of:Read the answer and worked solution →Around 1,000,000 people died of starvation in the Great Irish Potato Famine of:Read the answer and worked solution →Which British laws restricting corn imports were scrapped under pressure from industrialists?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many people emigrated from Europe to America and Australia in the nineteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which technology let meat be shipped cheaply from America and Australia to Europe?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1885 the big European powers met to complete the carving up of Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Rinderpest, arriving in Africa in the late 1880s, killed what share of the cattle?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian indentured labour contracts promised return travel after how many years of work?Read the answer and worked solution →The system of indentured labour migration from India was abolished in:Read the answer and worked solution →Shikaripuri shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars were Indian groups of:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1812 and 1871, the share of raw cotton in India's exports rose from 5 per cent to:Read the answer and worked solution →Henry Ford's cars came off the assembly line at intervals of:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Over half of Bombay's cotton mill workers in 1911 came from which neighbouring district?

  1. Ahmednagar
  2. Ratnagiri
  3. Kolhapur
  4. Sholapur
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Correct answer: B. Ratnagiri

1. Workers came from districts around the mills. 2. Ratnagiri supplied over 50 per cent. 3. They returned home for harvests and festivals. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._

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J N Tata set up India's first iron and steel works in 1912 at:

  1. Rourkela
  2. Durgapur
  3. Jamshedpur
  4. Bhilai town
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Correct answer: C. Jamshedpur

1. Iron and steel started much later than textiles. 2. Jamshedpur was the site. 3. Machinery was still mostly imported. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._

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Mill owners recruited new workers through an old, trusted worker called the:

  1. Gomastha
  2. Mukadam
  3. Munshi
  4. Jobber
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Correct answer: D. Jobber

1. He brought people from his own village. 2. The jobber controlled entry to the mill. 3. He began demanding money and gifts. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._

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