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The first jute mill in Bengal was set up in:
A1885
B1815
C1895
D1855
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. 1855
1. Jute mills came up in Bengal around the same time as the Bombay cotton mills.
2. The first was set up in 1855.
3. Another followed seven years later, in 1862.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_
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