The first jute mill in Bengal was set up in:
A1854
B1862
C1917
D1855
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. 1855
1. Jute mills came up around the same time as cotton mills.
2. The first was set up in 1855.
3. Another followed seven years later.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._
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