Industrialisation bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Company servant who supervised weavers.

   Item

   Gomastha

2. Clue

   Trusted worker who recruited for mills.

   Item

   Jobber

3. Clue

   Device that sped up handloom weaving.

   Item

   Fly shuttle

4. Clue

   Rural production before factories.

   Item

   Proto-industry

5. Clue

   Hargreaves' machine of 1764.

   Item

   Spinning Jenny

6. Clue

   Gujarat port that decayed by the 1740s.

   Item

   Surat

7. Clue

   Site of the 1912 iron and steel works.

   Item

   Jamshedpur

8. Clue

   Source of cheap imported cloth.

   Item

   Manchester

9. Clue

   European firms that managed Indian industry.

   Item

   Agencies

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation