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UPSC CDS Minerals & Industries — practice questions

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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 →

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

  1. India
  2. Britain
  3. China
  4. Egypt
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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._

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

  1. Bandanna
  2. Muslin
  3. Calico
  4. Chintz
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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._

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

  1. Calicut
  2. Cochin
  3. Surat
  4. Madras
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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._

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