The Age of Industrialisation (Class X)

This is the correct answer. The clothier merchants bought the wool from the wool staplers. Stapler was the person who ‘stapled’ or sorted wool according to its fibre.

This statement is incorrect. The finishing was done in London and not the countryside. London was known as the finishing centre.

This is the correct answer as Richard Arkwright created the cotton mill.

This is the correct answer as Newcomen produced the first steam engine. This steam engine was later improved by James Watt and patented in 1781.

This is the correct answer as women were angered by the invention of the spinning jenny and attacked it.

This is the correct answer as handmade and hand-crafted goods came to represent refinement and class.

This is the correct answer. The old ports of Surat in Gujarat, Masulipatam in the Coromandal and Hoogly in Calcutta were the centres of trade in the pre-colonial times.

This is the correct answer. The first symbol of the new era was cotton and its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.

This is the correct answer as gomastha was an Indian agent of the British East India Company and signed bonds, usually compellingly, by local weavers and artisans to deliver goods to the Company. The prices of the goods were fixed by the gomasthas.

This is the correct answer. The first cotton mill was set up in Bombay in 1854.

This is the correct answer as Seth Hukumchand was a Marwari businessman who set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta, in 1917.

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. Rulers granted different guilds the monopoly right to produce and trade in specific products.

This is the correct answer as Bird Heiglers & Co, Andrew Yule and Jardine Skinner & Co. were the biggest European managing agencies till the First World War.

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. Workers in the textile mills of Bombay and the jute mills of Calcutta came from the United Provinces.

This is the correct answer as the European managing agencies were interested in the production of tea and coffee plantations, mining, indigo and jute. Most of these were products required primarily for export trade and not for sale in India.

No, as this is incorrect. US, Germany and Japan made technological advances that made it impossible for Britain to compete with them. They did not import yarn from India. Yarn demand decreased as Chinese and Japanese mills took it over and fabric for local markets was produced.

This is correct. The poor bought this and its demand fluctuated widely during bad harvest or famines.

This is the correct answer. Handicraft weavers used looms with a fly shuttle, which increased productivity per worker, speeded up production and reduced labour demand.

This is the correct answer as both the statements are correct.