History

The Age of Industrialisation

Question:

What technological change helped in improving production of India industry during the 20th century ?

Answer:

The introduction of Fly shuttle.

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The Age of Industrialisation

Q 1.

Why did the upper class people prefer to use hand products in the Victorian period ? Explain with examples.
Why in Victorian Britain, the upper classes preferred things produced by hand ? Give three reasons. (CBSE Sept. 2010)

Q 2.

Name the ports which grew during the colonial period.

Q 3.

What was the impact of colonisation of India on the Indian traders and merchants ?

Q 4.

What were guilds ?

Q 5.

During the first world war years industrial production in India boomed. Give reason.

Q 6.

Name the provinces where most of the large-scale industries were located during the colonial period.

Q 7.

Who were Gomasthas ? [CASE 2014]

Q 8.

What were the benefits enjoyed by the villagers in the proto- industrial system.

Q 9.

Name any four major centres of cotton textile of India during the colonial period.

Q 10.

When Manchester industrialists began selling cloth in India, they put labels with pictures on the cloth bundles. Why did they do so ? Explain.

Q 11.

Why could Britain not recapture her hold on the Indian market after the Rrst World War ? Explain. [CBSE 2009 (F)]
Or
Explain the impact of the First World War on Britain’s economy ? [CBSE Sept. 2010.2011]

Q 12.

Give reasons why the handloom weavers in India survived the onslaught of the machine made textiles of Manchester ?  [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Or
How did small scale industries survive in India despite of Industrialisation ?  [CBSE 2013]

Q 13.

Which pre-colonial port connected India to the Gulf countries and the Red Sea ports ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]

Q 14.

Who was a jobber ?

Q 15.

When Indian manufacturers advertised, the nationalist message was clear and loud."What was the message ?

Q 16.

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

Q 17.

What technological change helped in improving production of India industry during the 20th century ?

Q 18.

The proto-industrialisation helped in building a close relationship between the town and the countryside”. Explain.

Q 19.

What is the importance of advertisement? How advertisement was used by the Britishers to expand the market for their products?

Q 20.

How do Cloth Merchants function?

Q 21.

What is meant by proto-industrialisation ? How did it affect the rural peasants and artisans ? [CBSE 2012]
Or
How did the poor peasants and artisans benefit during the proto-industrialisation phase? [CBSE 2011]

Q 22.

Write True or False against each statement:
(a) At the end of the 19th century, 80 per cent of the total workforce in Europe was employed in the technologically advanced industrial sector.
(b) The international market for textiles was dominated by India till the eighteenth century.
(c) The American Civil War resulted in the reduction of cotton exports from India.
(d) The introduction of the fly shuttle enabled the handloom workers to improve their productivity.

Q 23.

“Certain group of weavers were in a better position than others to survive the competition with mill industries-. Explain. [CBSE 2014]

Q 24.

Who was a jobber ? Explain his functions. [CBSE 200S. Sept. 2010. 2011. 2012} Or
Why was a jobber employed ? How did jobber misuse his position and power ? Explain. (CBSE 2013]

Q 25.

Name any two regions of colonial India which were famous for large-scale industries.

Q 26.

”Before establishing political power in Bengal and Carnatic in the 1760 and 1770s, the East India Company had found it difficult to ensure a regular supply of goods for export. Give reasons.

Q 27.

Explain what is meant by proto-Industrialisation.

Q 28.

Write a brief note on the cotton Industry.

Q 29.

Write a short note on the development of factories in India.
Or
Explain the growth of factories in India.

Q 30.

Explain any five causes of industrial revolution in England. [CBSE 2013.2014]

Q 31.

Why did the network of export trade in textiles controlled by the Indian merchants break down by the 1750s ? Mention any two effects of such a breakdown ? [CBSE 2013]

Q 32.

Which industry was symbol of the new era ?

Q 33.

"In Victorian Britain, the upper classes – the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie – preferred things produced by hand". Give reason.

Q 34.

“Under the colonial era the Indian merchants were discriminated and space within which Indian merchants could function became increasingly limited’. Justify.

Q 35.

Industrialisation brought a big change in social structure. Do you agree? Justify.

Q 36.

Assess the impact of the American Civil War on the plight of Weavers in India during second half at the 18th century.  [CBSE 2014]

Q 37.

What were the problems faced by the textile manufacturers in India in the late 1800s ?

Q 38.

Mention any five restrictions imposed by the British government upon the Indian merchants In the 19th century. [CBSE 2011]

Q 39.

Mention any four features of the proto ¬industrial system. [CBSE Svpt. 2010]
Or
Explain the main features of proto ¬industrialisation. [CBSE 2010 (0)]
Or
What was proto-industrialisation ? Why did the poor peasants and artisans in the countryside begin to work for the merchants from the towns ? [CBSE 2012]

Q 40.

By the first decade of the 20th century, a series of changes affected the pattern of industrialisation in India. Explain.  [CBSE 2008. Sept. 2013]

Q 41.

How was proto-industrialisation different from factory production ?

Q 42.

Who created the cotton mill ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 43.

Name the goods from India Which dominated the international market before the age of machine industries.

Q 44.

What was the result of the import of Manchester cloth to India ?

Q 45.

What was importance of advertisements in expanding the market during the colonial period ?

Q 46.

Write a brief note on the cotton Industry

Q 47.

How do Cloth Merchants function?

Q 48.

What was the role of trade guilds ? Explain.

Q 49.

How were the Indian merchant industrialists discriminated by the Britishers ?
Or
Mention some of the problems of the Indian merchant industrialists.

Q 50.

In the 20th century, the handloom cloth production expanded steadily, i.e.. almost trebling between 1900 and 1940.’ Give reasons.
Or
What led to expansion In handloom craft production between 1900 and 1940 ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]