Multiple choice

When was the first modern cotton textile mill set up in India?

  1. 1818

  2. 1854

  3. 1861

  4. 1863
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The first modern cotton textile mill in India was established in 1818 in Kolkata (then Calcutta) by Henry Gourlaw and others. This marked the beginning of modern industrial textile manufacturing in India, shifting from traditional handloom to mechanized production. Bombay (Mumbai) became a later major textile center (1854 first mill there).

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