HISTORY - The Age of Industrialisation

The Age of Industrialisation

Short Questions 1. Who was a stapler? Answer: A person who staples or sorts the wool. 2. When did the first factor...

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1. Why did industrial production in India boom during the World War-I phase? Answer : Industrial production in India...

2. Who created the cotton mill How did it help in improving the production? Answer : Richard Arkwright had created th...

3. Highlight any three benefits of industrialisation on the society? Answer : The three benefits of Industrialisation...

4. “Certain group of weavers were in a better position than others to survive the competition with mill industries-. Exp...

5. What were the roles of trade guilds? Answer : The jobs of trade guilds can be explained like this : i. Skilled cr...

6. Write a short note on the development of factories in India. OR Explain the growth of factories in India. Answer...

7. Why could Britain not recapture her hold on the Indian market after the Rrst World War Explain. OR Explain the imp...

8. Explain what is meant by proto-industrialisation. Answer : The word 'proto' signifies the initial or early stage of...

9. Why was East India Company keen on expanding textile exports from India during the 1760 Explain any three reasons....

10. Mention any five restrictions imposed by the British government upon the Indian merchants in the 19th century. An...

11. “By the 1860s Indian weavers failed to get sufficient supply of raw cotton of good quality”. Give reason. Answer :...

12. Why did the upper class people prefer to use hand products in the Victorian period Explain with examples. OR Why...

13. What were the advantages of cotton mill? Answer : The benefits of cotton mills can be listed as follows : i...

14. What was the impact of colonisation of India on the Indian traders ? Answer : As colonial control over Indian tr...

15. Explain the features of pre-colonial trade scenario in India. Answer : The features of pre-colonial trade scenari...

16. Describe the nature of nationalism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Answer : The nature of national...

17. Why was a jobber employed? How did he misuse his power? Answer : Industrialists typically hired a jobber to recrui...

18. Write a short note on the growth of factories in colonial India. Answer : The initial cotton mill in Bombay was es...

19. Why merchants from towns in Europe began to move countryside in Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Answer : I...

20. Name any two European Managing Agencies which controlled a large sector of the Indian industries. Describe any three...

21. Describe any three major problems faced by Indian cotton weavers in the nineteenth century. Answer : The problem...

22. “By the 1860s Indian weavers failed to get sufficient supply of raw cotton of good quality”. Give reason. Answer...

23. How were the Indian merchant industrialists discriminated by the Britishers ? OR Mention some of the problems of t...

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1. Explain the role of Indian merchants and bankers in the network of export trade. OR What role did the Indian merch...

2. How did the abundance of labour in the market affect the lives of the workers in Britain during the nineteenth centu...

3. How did the East India Company procure regular supplies of cotton and silk textiles from Indian weavers? Answer : 1...

4. The establishment of political power by the East India Company resulted in ruination of the Indian weavers. Support t...

5. Describe any three major problems faced by Indian cotton weavers in the nineteenth century. Answer : The problems...

6. Why did some industrialists in nineteenth century Europe prefer hand labour over machines? Answer : In the nineteen...

7. Explain the impact of the First World War on the Indian industries. OR Describe the peculiarities of Indian indus...

8. Give reasons why the handloom weavers in India survived the onslaught of the machine made textiles of Manchester?...

9. Why did industrial production in India increase during the First World War? Answer : India witnessed increased ind...

10. ‘The port of Surat and Hoogly declined by the end of the ISth century.’ Explain. Answer : 1. Most of the European...

11. Why were most of the producers reluctant to use the new technology ? Explain by giving examples. OR Why did indus...

12. “Consumers are created through advertisement.” Support the statement with three suitable examples. OR Explain the...

13. ‘By the beginning of the 19th century, there was a long decline of textile exports from India.’ Explain by giving re...

14. Explain the main features of proto¬industrialisation. OR Mention any four features of the proto¬industrial syst...

15. ‘The process of industrialisation brought with it miseries for the newly emerged class of industrial workers.’ Expl...