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The Elgin Mill was started in the 1860s at:
AKanpur
BKolkata
CKochi
DKollam
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Kanpur
1. Mills spread beyond Bombay and Bengal in the 1860s.
2. In north India the Elgin Mill was started in Kanpur.
3. A year later the first cotton mill of Ahmedabad was set up.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_
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