Welcome to your The Age of Industrialization (Quiz)
1. When was the first cotton mill in Bombay established?
2. In which regions were most of the large industries located in 1911?
3. What kind of products were produced using hand labour in mid-nineteenth-century Britain?
4. Which pre-colonial port connected India to the Gulf and Red Sea ports?
5. What was a major change in the Indian cotton industry during the First World War?
6. What was one reason for the slow spread of technological changes in industries?
7. Why were cotton mills important in the process of industrialisation?
8. What type of goods did European Managing Agencies focus on in India?
9. How did the First World War impact industrial production in India?
10. In the illustration described from E.T. Paull’s music book, what does the wheel with wings symbolize?
11. How many steam engines were there in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century?
12. By what factor did the production of cotton piece-goods in India increase between 1900 and 1912?
13. Who is credited with inventing the Spinning Jenny?
14. Before the age of machine industries, which types of goods from India dominated the international market in textiles?
15. Where did most workers in the Bombay cotton industries come from in 1911?
16. What was a significant reason for the decline of Indian weavers in the mid-19th century?
17. Which industries were the most dynamic in Britain during the first phase of industrialisation?
18. What led to the decline of Surat and Hoogly as major trading ports in the 18th century?
19. What term do historians use to refer to the phase of industrialisation before the rise of factories?
20. What does the mechanic in the second image represent?
21. Why did industrialists in Victorian Britain prefer hand labour over machines?
22. By 1873, what was the value of Britain's iron and steel exports?
23. What was the role of the gomastha appointed by the East India Company?
24. What was a major factor that determined workers' income in Victorian Britain?
25. Why did merchants in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe turn to the countryside for production?
26. What impact did the competition between British and Indian manufacturers have on the development of a consumer culture in India?
27. What role did jobbers play in the recruitment of workers for mills?
28. What were European Managing Agencies like Bird Heiglers & Co. primarily responsible for in India?
29. Why did the upper classes in Victorian Britain prefer handmade goods?
30. What does the goddess-like figure in E.T. Paull's music book represent?
31. Which nation is referred to as the first industrial nation in the chapter?
32. Which country’s cotton supplies were cut off during the American Civil War, causing a price rise in Indian raw cotton?
33. What does the term "swadeshi" refer to in the context of Indian advertisements?
34. By 1787, how much had Britain's import of raw cotton increased to?
35. In which country were industrialists keen on using mechanical power due to a shortage of human labour?
36. What major innovation did Richard Arkwright create?
37. In the proto-industrial system, how many workers were typically employed by each merchant clothier?
38. How much raw cotton was Britain importing in 1760 to feed its cotton industry?
39. What was the primary reason many weavers began refusing loans from the East India Company?
40. What was one of the main strategies used by British manufacturers to sell products in India?
41. When did the earliest factories in England come up?
42. Which city saw the establishment of the Elgin Mill in the 1860s?
43. What is commonly associated with industrialisation?
44. Who was a prominent Parsi industrialist involved in building industrial empires in India?
45. What was one major reason poor peasants in the countryside agreed to work for merchants?
46. In which year did J.N. Tata set up the first iron and steel works in India?
47. Which industry was most affected by the introduction of the Spinning Jenny?
48. Why did weavers begin to revolt against the Company’s control in the late 18th century?
49. Which Indian businessman set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?
50. In what way did the depiction of emperors and nawabs in advertisements contribute to the products’ credibility?
51. What role did labels play in the selling of cloth produced in Manchester?
52. Which imagery was commonly used on cloth labels to appeal to Indian buyers?
53. What was a significant challenge for weavers producing coarse cloth?
54. What was the first symbol of the new era of industrialisation in England?
55. In the second image described from the trade magazine, what does Aladdin represent?
