History

The Age of Industrialisation

Question:

Who created the cotton mill ? How did it help in improving the production ?

Answer:

Richard Arkwright had created the Cotton mill.
(i) The costly machines could be purchased, set up and maintained in the mills.
(ii) Within the mills, all the processes were brought together under one roof and managed. This allowed a more careful supervision over the production process, a watch over quality and the regulation of labour, all of which had been difficult to do when the production was in the countryside.

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The Age of Industrialisation

Q 1.

Name the European Managing agencies which controlled the large sector of Indian industries.

Q 2.

Who discovered the Spinning Jenny ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

Explain what is meant by proto-Industrialisation.

Q 6.

Why did some Industrialists in nineteenth-century Europe prefer hand labour over machines?

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

What was Spinning Jenny ?

Q 9.

How did the East India Company procure regular supplies of cotton and silk textiles from the Indian weavers ?

Q 10.

Why did the peasants agree to accept advances made by the merchants to produce goods for them in Europe during the 17th and the 18th centuries* ? Explain three reasons. [CBSE Comp. (D) 2008]
Or
How were new merchant groups in Europe able to spread their business in the countryside before the Industrial Revolution ? Explain.
Or
Briefly explain the method and system of production in the countryside in England.
[CBSE 2013]

Q 11.

How the Indian and British manufacturers tried to expand their market ?

Q 12.

How do Cloth Merchants function?

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

Who created the cotton mill ? How did it help in improving the production ?

Q 15.

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 16.

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

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

The East India Company appointed gomasthas to supervise weavers in India.

Q 19.

Write a brief note on the cotton Industry.

Q 20.

Why did the industrial production in India increase during the First World War ? [CBSE Sept. 2011]

Q 21.

Why women workers attacked the spinning Jenny a machine which was introduced in Britain ?

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

How did the East India Company procure regular supplies of cotton and silk textiles from Indian weavers?

Q 25.

How do Cloth Merchants function?

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

Explain the major features of pre colonial trade and industries.

Q 28.

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 29.

Discuss the plight of the Indian weavers with the advent of the East India company.

Q 30.

Write a brief note on the Spinning Jenny.

Q 31.

Explain the following :
(a) Woman workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny. [CBSE Sept. 2011]
(b) In the seventeenth century, merchants from towns In Europe began employing peasants and artisans within the villages.
(c) The port of Surat declined by the end of the eighteenth century.
(d) The East India Company appointed Gomasthas to supervise the weavers in India. [CBSE Sept. 2011]

Q 32.

Explain the role of Indian merchants and bankers in the network of export trade.
Or
What role did the Indian merchants play in the growth of textile industries before 1750 ? Explain any three points. [CBSE 2011]

Q 33.

How was proto-industrialisation different from factory production ?

Q 34.

Why was it difficult for the new European merchants to set up business in town in the 17th and 18th centuries ?

Q 35.

Name any three pre-colonial ports of India.

Q 36.

Name the ports which grew during the colonial period.

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

What was the impact of the First World War on the British industries ?

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

Write a brief note on the cotton Industry

Q 43.

Write a brief note on the East India company.

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

What was the role of trade guilds ? Explain.

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

The port of Surat and Hoogly declined by the end of the ISth century.’ Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2012]

Q 48.

Why the system of advances proved harmful for the weavers ?

Q 49.

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 50.

What were guilds ?