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What was the 'putting-out' or 'cottage' system in proto-industrial Europe?
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C.
1. NCERT defines the cottage / putting-out system.
2. Merchants in towns supplied money (advances) to peasant and artisan households in the countryside.
3. The peasants produced cloth — initially yarn and cloth from raw cotton/wool supplied — within their own homes.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 4 "The Age of Industrialisation", §Proto-Industrialisation ¶2_
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