Class X

SOCIAL SCIENCE
(HISTORY)
CHAPTER –THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALISATION
ASSIGNMENT

1. Explain what is meant by proto-industrialisation.

2. In the seventeenth century, merchants from towns in Europe began employing
peasants and artisans within the villages. Explain.
3. How did the iron and steel industry in Britain overtake the cotton industry in
terms of export value? Explain.
4. Even the most powerful new technology that enhanced the productivity of
labour manifold was slow to be accepted by industrialists. Explain.
5. Why the hand labour was preferred over machines in Victorian England?
6. The abundance of labour in the market affected the lives of workers. Justify the
statement with substantial arguments.
7. The East India Company appointed Gomasthas to supervise weavers in India.
Explain
8. How did the system of advances prove harmful to the Indian weavers?
9. Why did export of Indian textiles decline in the 19th century?
10. Why did industrial production in India increase during the First World War?
11. Elaborate on the strategies adopted by the Manchester industrialists to create a
market for their goods.
12. Who devised the Spinning Jenny?
13. When was the first cotton mill set up in India?
14. Who was E.T. Paull?
15. Which Indian entrepreneur set up six joint stock companies in India in 1830’s
and 1840’s?
16. When was the first jute mill set up in India?
17. What was the fly shuttle?
18. Who was a jobber?
19. Which place was known as finishing centre?
20. Why did images of gods and goddesses appear on the labels?

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