MCQ Class 10 History Chapter 4 The Age of IndustrialisationMCQ’s For All Chapters – History Class 10th 1. The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in:1854186218741917Question 1 of 202. The first jute mill in Bengal was set up in:1855186218651874Question 2 of 203. The first cotton mill of Ahmedabad was set up in:1854186018611862Question 3 of 204. Dwarkanath Tagore’s enterprises sank due to:Chinese competitionBusiness crises of the 1840sGovernment taxesLack of workersQuestion 4 of 205. Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata’s initial wealth came partly from:OilRaw cotton shipments to EnglandIron miningSpicesQuestion 5 of 206. Seth Hukumchand is known for setting up the first Indian:Cotton mill in BombayJute mill in CalcuttaSteel plant in JamshedpurTextile mill in KanpurQuestion 6 of 207. European Managing Agencies like Bird Heiglers & Co.were involved in:Shipbuilding for Indian merchantsManaging and financing Indian industriesSuppressing Indian handloomsRunning Indian railwaysQuestion 7 of 208. Indian businessmen were not allowed to join:Chambers of Commerce of EuropeansLocal cooperative banksIndian labour unionsTextile fairsQuestion 8 of 209. In 1901 the number of workers in Indian factories was about:50,000584,0001 million2 millionQuestion 9 of 2010. Over 50% workers in the Bombay cotton industries in 1911 came from:GujaratRatnagiri districtBengalMadrasQuestion 10 of 2011. Workers often returned to their villages during:British inspectionsHarvests and festivalsFaminesElectionsQuestion 11 of 2012. Industrialists employed jobbers to:Supervise productionRecruit workersTransport raw cottonCollect taxesQuestion 12 of 2013. The jobber gradually became a person of:WeaknessAuthority and powerNo importancePolitical influence onlyQuestion 13 of 2014. Bhai Bhosle recalled his father’s shift in the 1930s-40s was:5 am to 3 pm5 pm to 3 am8 am to 6 pm6 pm to 6 amQuestion 14 of 2015. European Managing Agencies primarily invested in:Indian handicraftsTea, coffee, mining, indigo and juteAutomobile factoriesMachine tool industryQuestion 15 of 2016. Early Indian cotton mills produced mostly:Superior fabricCoarse cotton yarnReady-made garmentsJute productsQuestion 16 of 2017. The Swadeshi movement encouraged people to:Buy Manchester goodsBoycott foreign clothWork longer hoursImport more yarnQuestion 17 of 2018. Export of Indian yarn to China declined after:1900190619101920Question 18 of 2019. During the First World War Manchester imports into India:IncreasedDeclinedRemained sameDoubledQuestion 19 of 2020. Indian mills during the war were called upon to supply:Food grainsWar needs like jute bags, army cloth, leather bootsSteam enginesAmmunition onlyQuestion 20 of 20 Loading...
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