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Who made a fortune in the China trade before turning to industry in Bengal?
ADevendranath Sarkar
BDinabandhu Mitra
CDwarkanath Tagore
DDebendranath Basu
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Dwarkanath Tagore
1. Many business groups traced their capital to the China trade.
2. In Bengal, Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune there before turning to industrial investment.
3. He set up six joint-stock companies in the 1830s and 1840s.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_
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