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