alleryOver half the workers in Bombay's cotton industry in 1911 came from:
ARaigarh district
BRatnagiri district
CRajkot district
DRaichur district
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Ratnagiri district
1. Workers usually came from the districts around the mills.
2. Over 50 per cent of workers in the Bombay cotton industries in 1911 came from neighbouring Ratnagiri.
3. The mills of Kanpur similarly drew hands from villages within that district.
_Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_
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