History

The Age of Industrialisation

Question:

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]

Answer:

(i) Impact on cottagers and peasants : After the disappearing of open field system cottagers and poor peasants ‘who had earlier depended on common lands for their survival, gathering their firewood, berries, vegetables, hay and straw, had to now look for alternative sources of income. Many had tiny plots of land which could not provide work for all members of the household. So when merchants cam around and offered advances to produce good; for them, peasant households eagerly agreed. By working for the merchants, they could remain in the countryside and continue to cultivate their small plots. Income from proto-industrial production supplemented their shrinking income from cultivation. It also allowed them a fuller use of their family labour resources.
(ii) Closed relationship between countryside and towns : Within this system a close relationship developed between the town and the countryside. Merchants were based in towns but the work was done mostly in the countryside.
(iii) Role of merchants : The whole system of production was controlled by merchants and the goods were produced by a vast number of producers working within their family farms, not in factories At each stage of production 20 to 25 workers were employed by each merchant.
(iv) Market : With the expansion of world trade and the acquistion of colonies in different parts of the world, the demand for goods began growing. So the Merchants were producing these goods for international market.
(v) Not factories : The goods were no: produced in factories by the cotta cottagers and Hie peasants and their families.

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The Age of Industrialisation

Q 1.

How did the abundance of labour in the market affect the lives of the workers in Britain during the nineteenth century? Explain with examples. [CBSE Comp. (O) 2008]

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

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 7.

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

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

Explain what is meant by proto-Industrialisation.

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

How do Cloth Merchants function?

Q 13.

What was Spinning Jenny ?

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

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 16.

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

Q 17.

Name the provinces where most of the large-scale industries were located. How can you say that small-scale production continued to predominate even in the late 20th century ?

Q 18.

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 19.

Why the production of cotton industry boomed in the late 19th century ?
Or
How had a series of inventions in the eighteenth century increased the efficiency of each step of the production process in cotton textile industry ? Explain. [CBSE 2008]

Q 20.

Mention the major features of Indian textiles before the age of machine industries.

Q 21.

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 22.

What were guilds ?

Q 23.

”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 24.

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

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

Write a brief note on the cotton Industry

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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 34.

In the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, the merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside.' Give reasons.
Or
Explain any three major problems faced by the new European merchants in setting up their industries in towns before the Industrial Revolution. [CBSE 2008 (D) Sept. 2012]
Or
What is meant by proto-industrialisation ? Why was it successful in the countryside in England in the 17th century ?  [CBSE Sept. 2008. 2011. 2012]
Or
Throw light on production during the proto-industrialisation phase in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with an example. [CBSF. Sept. 2010]

Q 35.

What steps were taken by the East India Company to contiol the market of cotton and silk goods ? [CBSE 2009 (D)]
Or
The establishment of political power by the East India Company resulted in ruination of the Indian weavers. Support the statement with suitable examples.  [CBSE 2012]

Q 36.

Who were the entrepreneurs or business groups in India during the 19th century ?

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

Who created the cotton mill ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 39.

What was fly shuttle ?

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

How do Cloth Merchants function?

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

Why did some industrialists in the nineteenth century Europe prefer hand labour over machines ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

What was the role of trade guilds ? Explain.

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

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

Q 48.

Explain the major features of pre colonial trade and industries.

Q 49.

Why was East India Company keen on expanding textile exports from India during the 1760 ? Explain any three reasons. [CBSE 2013]

Q 50.

Name any two European Managing Agencies which controlled a large sector of the Indian industries. Describe any  three functions performed by such agencies. (CBSE 2013)