The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in:
A1894
B1834
C1854
D1874
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. 1854
1. Indian factories began appearing in the middle of the nineteenth century.
2. The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in 1854.
3. It went into production two years later.
_Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_
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