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Over half of Bombay's cotton mill workers in 1911 came from which neighbouring district?
AAhmednagar
BRatnagiri
CKolhapur
DSholapur
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Ratnagiri
1. Workers came from districts around the mills.
2. Ratnagiri supplied over 50 per cent.
3. They returned home for harvests and festivals.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._
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