Uttarakhand Board Class 10 The Age of Industrialisation — practice questions
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Practice Uttarakhand Board Class 10 The Age of Industrialisation in the app →The first symbol of the new industrial era in Britain was the:Proto-industrialisation refers to:The first cotton mill in Britain was set up in:The 'jobber' in 19th-century Indian cotton mills was:James Watt's improvement of the steam engine was patented in:The Spinning Jenny was invented by:In late-19th-century India, who set up the first jute mill?The 'fly shuttle' (also called the flying shuttle) was invented by:What did 'mass production' bring to early-20th-century industrial economies?E.T. Paull's music sheet cover 'Dawn of the Century' (Fig. 1) depicts a figure representing 'New Century' stanWhat was the 'putting-out' or 'cottage' system in proto-industrial Europe?Why did many European merchants prefer rural production over urban guild-controlled production?Why did British textile exports to India initially face resistance after the Industrial Revolution?What was the 'gomastha' in colonial Bengal's textile trade?The Manchester cotton textile slump during the American Civil War (1861-65) caused which effect in India?After WWI, British textile factories faced losses primarily because:India's first iron and steel factory, the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO), was set up in 1907 at:The 'Swadeshi Movement' (1905-1908) urged Indians to:Indian-owned cotton mills in the late 19th and early 20th centuries primarily produced:Why did Indian handloom weavers, despite mill competition, survive into the 20th century?