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Which Marwari businessman set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?
AGhanshyam Das Birla
BJamsetjee Tata
CSeth Hukumchand
DSir Dinshaw Petit
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Seth Hukumchand
1. He too had traded with China.
2. Seth Hukumchand set up the mill.
3. Birla's father and grandfather also traded with China.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._
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