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Britain imported 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton in 1760. By 1787 the import had soared to:Read the answer and worked solution →Who created the cotton mill, bringing all the processes under one roof?Read the answer and worked solution →James Watt patented his improved steam engine in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Spinning Jenny of 1764 was devised by:Read the answer and worked solution →Trade through Surat was Rs 16 million in the late seventeenth century. By the 1740s it had slumped to:Read the answer and worked solution →The East India Company's paid servant who supervised weavers and examined cloth quality was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton piece-goods were 33 per cent of India's exports in 1811-12. By 1850-51 the share was no more than:Read the answer and worked solution →By 1850, cotton piece-goods formed what share of the value of Indian imports?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 of the 1860s was started in:Read the answer and worked solution →Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune, before turning to industry, in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Marwari businessman set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?Read the answer and worked solution →Bird Heiglers, Andrew Yule and Jardine Skinner were the three biggest European:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian factory workers numbered 584,000 in 1901. By 1946 the number was over:Read the answer and worked solution →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 →

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Britain imported 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton in 1760. By 1787 the import had soared to:

  1. 22 million pounds
  2. 12 million pounds
  3. 32 million pounds
  4. 52 million pounds
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Correct answer: A. 22 million pounds

1. Cotton was the first symbol of the new era. 2. Imports rose to 22 million pounds. 3. New machines drove the rise. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._

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Who created the cotton mill, bringing all the processes under one roof?

  1. Mathew Boulton
  2. Richard Arkwright
  3. James Hargreaves
  4. James Watt of Glasgow
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Correct answer: B. Richard Arkwright

1. Earlier cloth-making was spread across the countryside. 2. Richard Arkwright created the cotton mill. 3. Costly machines could now be set up in one place. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._

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James Watt patented his improved steam engine in:

  1. 1781
  2. 1764
  3. 1854
  4. 1812
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Correct answer: A. 1781

1. He improved the engine made by Newcomen. 2. The patent came in 1781. 3. Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._

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