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5. The first cotton textile mill was set up in Bombay in:
(a) 1854 (b) 1856 (c) 1855
6. Dadabhai Naoroji wrote about India’s drain of wealth in the book:
(a) Poverty in India
(b) Poverty and British Rule in India
(c) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
B. Fill in the blanks.
1. The ___________________ traders and trading organisations made huge profits by selling
Indian products.
2. In ___________________ , trade monopoly was abolished and one-way free trade policy
was imposed on India.
3. Indian textiles also lost out to ___________________ textiles on the issue of price in the
European and American markets.
4. By ___________________ , nearly 100 mills were operating in Bombay.
5. Real and satisfactory progress in the factory industries began only from
___________________.
C. Write True or False.
1. Indian handicraft products were not in demand in the markets.
2. Handicrafts of India could not sustain the pressure of the competition with
cheaper machine-made goods.
3. The British began to follow the policy of 'one-way free trade'.
4. After independence, only a few iron and steel companies were established.
5. The coal mines of Bihar, Bengal and Odisha supplied coal for use in railways.
6. Subhash Chandra Bose asked the people to boycott British cloth and use hand-
woven cloth instead.
D. Give reasons for the following.
1. Trading companies from Europe came to India to buy textiles.
2. Cloth made in England was less expensive than cloth made in India.
E. Answer the following questions.
1. Discuss two factors that led to the decline of Indian textiles.
2. How did the Industrial Revolution impact the Indian textiles.
3. How did the policy of 'one-way free trade' contribute to the decline of the Indian textile
industry?
4. ‘Industrial Revolution brought the world closer through increased trade and better
transportation. However, it did not create equal relationships between nations.’ Justify
the statement.
5. Why was industrial development in India slow and erratic?
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